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Re: by RachelF on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:01PM (#41315700)
"- Invest in good docs..."

In my experience, end users don't read the docs or FAQ's or help search - they send you a question.

Re: by vonunov on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:23PM (#41316523)
Run stats on support requests and make canned/auto replies for the common ones?
Re: by kadoban on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:18AM (#41317628)
Even if users don't read them of their own volition, they're still valuable. You can copy/paste responses from them, link to them, or hell just use them to remember the answer yourself later without having to confirm it or even think about it.
Re: by jkukul on Thursday August 22, 2024 @05:10AM (#41318219)
I think in the era of LLMs good docs/FAQ are of an even greater value.

You can write a support bot that sends a user's question + docs/FAQ to an LLM to automatically deal with the basic questions and only involve a human in the loop once a question goes beyond what's in the docs.

Re: by Too on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:58PM (#41323385)
For a side project?

Not even the big giants manage to create LLM bots that work.