> But managers don't care (and many co-workers also).
For the majority, the cost is not that well known and in general they are not the ones paying for it, you are.
In particular for your colleagues it may be beneficial to disturb you because when they disturb you, you may lose concentration but the may in fact avoid losing it by quickly get an answer to their pending problem.
This is one aspect where LLMs may be very useful: asking something to a tool like ChatGPT may not be faster than asking a colleague, but if it avoids ruining the colleague's concentration it will be a net positive for the company. This is even more true if/when those model will incorporate specific internal knowledge (code, documentation) of the company.
> In particular for your colleagues it may be beneficial to disturb you because when they disturb you, you may lose concentration but the may in fact avoid losing it by quickly get an answer to their pending problem.
This is true, but the people getting asked are usually the ones doing (much) more delicate work, so it’s their concentration that should be protected.
For the majority, the cost is not that well known and in general they are not the ones paying for it, you are.
In particular for your colleagues it may be beneficial to disturb you because when they disturb you, you may lose concentration but the may in fact avoid losing it by quickly get an answer to their pending problem.
This is one aspect where LLMs may be very useful: asking something to a tool like ChatGPT may not be faster than asking a colleague, but if it avoids ruining the colleague's concentration it will be a net positive for the company. This is even more true if/when those model will incorporate specific internal knowledge (code, documentation) of the company.