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Having done some tech support before, you are an exception. The vast majority of things customers ask are along the lines of "how do I <thing explained on the faq page>" and "how do I <basic technical question that is not specific to the product, they just don't know how to use their computer>".

An LLM is basically perfect to answer these. It would be nice if there was improvements to detection that the bot can not directly answer the question.



And unfortunately the ones who does their due diligence and cost 0 are punished for that.


Unless they used No Support Linux Hosting [0] (RIP)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109003408/https://www.nosup...


Is it just me or have archive.org links become absurdly slow for everyone? It took a whole minute to load this, and I don't think it used to be this bad like a year ago...



I can assure you these ones are among the hallowed 0.01% of all users.


So it's okay to punish them? Maybe companies deserve paying for inflated support costs and customers who refuse to lookup information themselves.

The solution here is to increase the 0.01% by helping them, not try to destroy them.


And this is something to boast about? Should that 0.01 need to behave as the rest or leave you? Isn't this practically saying I am not interested in the customers that are good citizens.


I couldn’t disagree more. It actually worries me that so many people seem to be making this mistake, simultaneously.


What specifically do you disagree with? That most basic support questions could be fielded by an LLM?




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