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hahn-kevtoday at 12:01 PM1 replyview on HN

The number of times I've seen people blow though prompts which directly refer to the issue they are coming to me about... SMH


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TeMPOraLtoday at 12:49 PM

Trained by the many more prompts that are irrelevant in practice, and merely stand between a person and the task they're trying to accomplish.

It's not like computers give people a good reason to read the error popups. 90% of them these days are just "oops, computer pooped itself, a well trained army of monkeys is on its way to clean it up; try again later <tinyprint>0xbunchofbullshit-hexadecimal-uuids-for-vendor-telemetry</tinyprint> ;-)" anyway.

Most of the time, people are given only two options: give up on their task, or ignore the popup. No point in reading the message in such cases, it brings zero value.

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