Have we gone from RTFM to just ask your AI agent?

Even then we had a feedback loop, but with the dawn of AI I'm seeing people go on loops chatting with Agents, trying to get the perfect answer but won't actually ask peers.

And as someone who likes observing people, this trend has me a bit curious, especially in remote companies where you mostly rely on work apps to be social with your colleagues etc.

Personally I like chatting with people when I'm stuck on issues so that I can understand their perspective and how they tackle an issue that I'm seeing for me that opens new pathways in my toolkit.

For me the act of not knowing isn't a punishment it's more of a learning opportunity and interacting with people who've been there in the field and have picked up a lot of the work without AI just by researching and reading manuals and documentation.

Has AI made people afraid of looking like they don't know stuff? I use it sometimes here and there for work, because I've noticed we're now looking at speed as a metric as to how fast can we push things out because AI can help speed up things.

While I'm sure AI has it's uses it sometimes takes the joy of searching through the haystack to find that one needle that tells you how the program works or how the function is defined.

If you're seeing this I'd like to ask you what do you feel about the societal changes with the use of AI and different tools.