Re:Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore
by xg15 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:57AM
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The common theme across those different examples seems to be:
"Before, we had to be careful to allow each team member to build experience and expertise with our codebase and avoid dynamics that could form knowledge silos. Now this stuff doesn't matter anymore because everyone can just ask Claude to explain everything to them."
I'm not so sure about that, honestly. In the short term, it works, yes. But in the long term, it might be as if you have some very good books, but zero hands-on experience with a thing. We all know that boom knowledge is different from learned experience.
"Before, we had to be careful to allow each team member to build experience and expertise with our codebase and avoid dynamics that could form knowledge silos. Now this stuff doesn't matter anymore because everyone can just ask Claude to explain everything to them."
I'm not so sure about that, honestly. In the short term, it works, yes. But in the long term, it might be as if you have some very good books, but zero hands-on experience with a thing. We all know that boom knowledge is different from learned experience.