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That's more reasonable. Still, why do so many seekers-of-wisdom do that? Is it fear of the documentation, which can be pretty intimidating for a novice? Are
by Daniel_Newby 17y ago
That's more reasonable.
Still, why do so many seekers-of-wisdom do that? Is it fear of the documentation, which can be pretty intimidating for a novice? Are they truly, seriously lazy gold brickers? Are they just thick? If it is the first, what they need is reassurance and a very simple, unintimidating example.
I wonder if there is a market for teaching chatbots? They'd have a hard time being worse than the endless "tutorials" on the web.
- mst 17y ago"factoid" - one of our best tactics for avoiding non-constructive grumpiness has been to teach the chatbot descriptive but firm responses to some of the most common mistakes. In a lot of cases, as I note elsethread, I think it's often that they've been locked into tunnel vision over the "solution" they're currently attempting - they have a serious case of XY problem but their self-made blinkers prevent them seeing that. A much shorter version of this drama gets played out on technical channels when one of us goes "hmm, why isn't this working?", somebody else goes "wtf are you doing that for?" and the first one goes ".... oh, FFS, because I'm an idiot". But it takes practice to be that in tune with your inner idiot.
- awnstudio 17y agoThats a particularly easy question to answer, and the answer is convenience. Most people would rather call tech-support than figure out a problem themselves. Which is not unreasonable in this fast-paced results-oriented world we live in.