{"id":4535,"date":"2026-01-12T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:08:01","slug":"be-curt-its-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/01\/be-curt-its-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Curt \u2026 It\u2019s Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The one great advantage to working with a chatbot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">curt: adjective, using or expressed in few words, in a way perceived as rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, that&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s what I like about working with a chattering bot: I can be curt and I won&#8217;t hurt anyone&#8217;s feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;t mince words. I WAS CURT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8220;curt&#8221; anymore?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew there was something good about these chattering bots. Now I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s what I like about working with a chattering bot: I can be curt and I won&#8217;t hurt anyone&#8217;s feelings. I was attempting to create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,105,83,412,66],"tags":[470,219,200,413,186],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-competence","category-computing","category-language","category-word","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-competence","tag-computing","tag-language","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}