Reddit user: write your own approach first, then ask Claude to find holes in it
Apprehensive_Set3897 · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Reddit post reflects on how easy it is to dump a problem into Claude within five minutes and accept the first plausible answer—using AI to avoid thinking rather than think better.
The author's fix: force yourself to write down your own approach first, then have Claude attack the reasoning. The answers aren't always better, but the interaction becomes actual learning instead of outsourced thinking.
The thread poses the open question of where to draw the line between Claude as a thinking partner and Claude as a replacement for thinking.
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