Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLM

A personal essay pushing back against the reflexive 'just ask Claude' response when someone brings a hard, already-researched question to a human expert. The author argues that LLMs can't replace the specific, lived experience and hard-won judgment that comes from decades in a field — and that redirecting to an AI is often a polite way to avoid engaging, not a genuinely helpful suggestion. The piece draws a distinction between questions that survive LLM interrogation and those that don't, and makes the case that human expertise still has irreplaceable value for the former.