Comment Read the docs, notes, guides (Score 2) 124
I learned to read as a child so by college I would read the vendor documentation, programmer notes, and application guides, the existence of made a significant purchase recommendation around the Win 2 & 3 migration from DOS: don’t buy something that doesn’t have a printed manual. Acrobat and PDF replaced printing, but it was always the content I used.
Now I deal with (mostly) managers who want to know what numbers add up to 2, what’s does “add up to” mean (because they overheard the question in a Teams meeting they weren’t involved in), and can it run on Linux by someone else such that they can continue do as close to nothing more as possible (really asking for telepathy so the response is returned effortlessly).
Asking for any such documentation of internal projects now leads to requests for time travel back to the last upgrade rushed into production because using a calendar the schedule projects in advance is not a manager job requirement.
The best thing I imagine an AI could say is to pull your head out of your ass. Across my 40 year career, there are several times I should have been told that and every one would have been better off.
