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Tech support takes a human

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back and forth, back and forth. It's like it takes it really takes it takes a human to understand the flow of the conversation that happens during a support. encounter

Episode 263: Chat is Dead (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:23:06 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Non-technical people can't describe problems; you get 'this thing doesn't work' and a back-and-forth. Everyone describes things differently, many different faults show up as the same error dialog, and some people will lie that they rebooted. It takes a human to learn each person's lingo and read the situation, which is why bot-to-bot support won't work.

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  1. Episode 263: Chat is Dead (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:13:14 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    a large number of... of problems that manifest. themselves in the same output sure The same dialogue box.

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