2007-12-17

IDEA: Why don't computers do what we want?

Today, I was working on something for my job, and encountered a quirk with an application I was using, where the application did something I didn't want it to do. As I grumbled in my mind about the small frustration, something occurred to me.

Are we working toward designing applications so that they either know exactly what we're trying to do, are smart enough to figure out what we're trying to do, and will accept help to figure out what we're trying to do?

I will try to remember to add more to this post later, but feel free to comment in the meantime.