It's definitely a use case that's pretty common. I've been in post-sales/tech support most of my career but it's a similar battle. Leads to a lot of waste of technical resource time. Though I think probably being able to point as much as possible to documentation is probably where I would start.
Fair usecase. The problem with supporting sales reps is that they need answers, not pointers to documentation. That subtle difference ends up making a significant difference in product direction
I remember when I was 10 years old at a computer camp during the summer at a local college. They had me set up my first email account with hotmail. They all asked us to lie about our age. I think even then they had restrictions that you had to be 13 years old.
But - that was over 25 years ago. The internet was a much different place.
Fast forward to today. Ours came home with a google account in the 5th grade I think. Something I explicitly did not want. They didn't send a permission slip home like they do for everything else either.
Another teacher around the time had the kids set up on GoodReads. They were under 13 and there was a TOS at the time restricted to 13+. Mostly adults on that site.
> Fast forward to today. Ours came home with a google account in the 5th grade I think. Something I explicitly did not want. They didn't send a permission slip home like they do for everything else either.
Google Workspace accounts, especially those for education[0], have Web & App Activity, as well as Location History, automatically turned off. It's just a tool for schools to get free/cheap email, storage, and classroom tools. For your child under 13 to be able to use it compliant with COPPA[1], your school must have either used some level of blanket consent, or the school didn't bother to actually get the parental consent Google requires.
I remember joining ebay (well, auctionweb - aw.com/ebay, IIRC) and it not even being an issue that I was around 14, we mostly trusted each other, and just mailed money orders around. A different time.
Stink bomb was honestly my 2nd favorite out of that collection (after magnetic rose). I think it was beautifully animated as well as just being really funny.
My old employer used twilio extensively for allowing the employees of customers to do automated clockouts/clockins. They seemed like a dumpster fire of a company to work with but that they had telephony figured out made them hard to dislodge from the market.
Actually I'd argue a large part of CEO's decision should be automated. There are certain things that you need to do in response to certain events. For these, teh CEO should just to a sanity check before approving them.
For everything else, you would need to have AGI - to understand the complexity of the environment you operate in, including events and changes seemingly not related to your business.
> My team is all over the world. Am I supposed to drive 4 hours to the nearest office to sit in a meeting room for a remote meeting?
I wondered about this too. My previous role (before the pandemic) I went into the office daily and almost everyone I met with/worked with was in other locations - even if they weren't remote themselves. There was almost no point for me to go to the office but I did anyway as that was the expectation.
