Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The one great advantage to working with a chatbot.

curt: adjective, using or expressed in few words, in a way perceived as rude.

Ah, that’s it. That’s what I like about working with a chattering bot: I can be curt and I won’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

I was attempting to create a family tree picture yesterday. I tried several different chattering bots. None of them did anything worthwhile. The answers were wrong. The pictures were junk. Good grief.

And you better believe that I laid into these chattering bots about what a lousy job they were doing! I told them again and again that they were making stupid mistakes and they needed to do a better job. I didn’t mince words. I WAS CURT!

It was okay. No one cried. No one pouted. No once stormed out of the room or whatever people do this days when someone is curt with them (does anyone use “curt” anymore?).

I knew there was something good about these chattering bots. Now I know.