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[glancing around my office at all the people using jira] Yeah, sure. That's the intention.

Seriously, though, I'm an "educated professional" with a liberal arts degree who uses jira every single day. Being an "educated professional" doesn't mean you have PM skills, or tech troubleshooting skills, or know how to search documentation for your problems. Educated professionals are a cross section of the larger population, and are more or less a representational sample of the whole of humanity. There are proportionally as many people whodon't know what a Kanban board is, or can't figure out why they don't have permission to delete the 350 epics they accidentally created.

AI assistance is like an interactive FAQ. It can do a little more than a static list of questions and answers, but the answers should also be validated by a human with the knowledge and understanding of the underlying systems. AI agents hallucinate and make up answers all the time. LLMs are essentially pattern recognition, and novel problems often break patterns. A human would go "huh, that's weird." An AI will classify a platypus as a duck and tell you with confidence how to pluck it.

So, I agree with you, and I am the same way. But you and me, we represent like a fifth of support callers. AI could deflect an alarming number of daily support cases. Just finding information in the documentation often requires a deep and thorough understanding of the product, and it's really difficult in documentation to separate "this is a common problem everyone has" from "this weird thing has never happened before and you need to talk to the dev who coded the fucker." AI is fairly good at that level of pattern recognition.

The problem is that you still need the people to take the hand off, and deflection doesn't mean they got the right answer, it just means they left.

I hate Trump and everything he stands for. I will spend my entire life fighting against everything Trump wants for America.

But Trump is not the cause of the high cost of living. Tariffs are myopic, expensive, and they certainly aren't helping.

But the problem started long before Trump, and it will continue after he dies.

That was actually the explicit plan, per Thomas Jefferson.

So much of our government worked on the idea that nobody would be brazen enough to break convention, and the untested belief that voters would immediately and vehemently reject anyone trying to openly abuse their power.

We now know both of those assumptions were wrong.

Sure, but even that is based on perceiving electromagnetic waves visually. The electron microscope represents the smallest particle that we can bounce off of another particle. That's why we can't visualize things on a smaller scale. Then we have the Planck length which is the theoretical limit of what we can predict physics are like at tiny scales.

But imagine a life form that evolved to perceive gravitational waves instead of electromagnetic waves (light). Or maybe there's some other force that we aren't even aware of.

So much of our understanding of the universe is a reflection of some Precambrian paramecium mutating an eyespot or cilia that can detect sound waves.

What's interesting there is that our understanding of elements is almost entirely theoretical. The math works out, but we might be missing entire particle structures or interactions. We observe atomic forces and give them names, but it's all built on particle theories that started as one lump and have been honed over time.

Aliens might have a periodic table of dimensional harmonic wave frequencies. Our concept of elements to aliens might be like when we meet an uncontacted culture which does not have numbers larger than 4.

The most sci-fi part of the movie was how all the governments on Earth had their best experts working on communicating and sharing information. The most realistic part was how they stopped sharing data and some religious nationalist dipshit tried to kill everyone.

Not to be contrarian, but the internet is full of people who care a lot about genitals. Pro, con, admirers, haters, artisans, maintenance, genitals are always a popular topic on the internet..

I'm not being mean, I'mexplaining why people are being mean to you. I'm not responsible for your feelings, and this is the treatment you should expect being a woman coming into a traditionally masculine space. If you stuck to the topic at hand, nobody would be correcting you.

Well this forum is primarily men, so maybe coming here and being a woman, you should have expected that?

Listen, lady, if you're ok with men talking down to you because you lack testosterone, then I'm not going to tell you how to live.