I’ll admit I’m often verbose in my own chats about technical issues. Lately they have been replying to everyone with what seems to be LLM generated responses, as if they are copy/pasting into an LLM and copy/pasting the response back to others.
Besides calling them out on this, what would you do?
If part of your coworker’s job is answering questions for coworkers, it’s disrespectful (not to mention a career-limiting move) to outsource that labor to an LLM. However, your coworker may be in a situation where they feel overwhelmed by coworkers not using available resources or they may have some other reason for “outsourcing” their work to an LLM. Or they could be underpaid, disgruntled by workload, or a bunch of other different things.
Without more context, it’s hard to know what may be going on there. I don’t think a constructive conversation with your colleague is possible without getting more information from them. I would recommend being pretty direct. Maybe something like: “It seems like you may not have read my question. This isn’t a question that I can get a usable answer from an LLM for. Is there another resource you think I should have used before contacting you?”
If this still feels too confrontational, you could take out the second sentence.