📎 Bot Coaching Mode: Motivating Reluctant Automations
(A Love Letter to Scripts That Can’t Find Buttons)
Let me explain.
I build automated workflows using Power Automate Desktop — a tool designed to make your computer do things so you don’t have to.
In theory, these bots are helpful.
In practice?
They forget where they clicked.
They forget what they clicked.
They claim the screen changed and that nothing is real anymore.
So I did what any rational human would do:
I wrote them a motivational speech.
Not a nice one.
Not a soft “you can do it” moment.
A speech rooted in sarcasm, veiled threats, and a complete lack of tolerance for digital whining.
This is how you manage bots that say "element not found" while staring directly at the element like it’s a ghost from their unresolved past.
Where error messages are just invitations to perform better.
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🔹 Bot: "I can't find the file."
✔ You: "Have you tried looking? Or do you expect me to personally guide you like some kind of digital seeing-eye dog?" -
🔹 Bot: "This element doesn’t exist."
✔ You: "It existed when I tested it. Did you check again, or are we gaslighting each other now?" -
🔹 Bot: "Action failed."
✔ You: "Failure is a learning experience. Try again. And don’t come back until you’ve succeeded." -
🔹 Bot: "Error: Element not found."
✔ You: "Maybe you’re not looking hard enough. Do I need to send you to an AI therapist for confidence training?"
"Listen, you were built for this. You have ONE job. If I, a mere human, can do this manually, you—an automation—should be able to handle it in 0.1 seconds. Now stop making excuses and start clicking those elements like your circuits depend on it!"
- Managing AI with a Firm Hand: Fear, Sarcasm, and Reluctant Compliance
- Digital Disobedience and How to Crush It
- AI Motivational Strategies: Because Threats Work
- 1️⃣ Why Fear Works on Bots (And Maybe Humans Too?)
- 2️⃣ Motivational Phrases That Make AI Behave
- 3️⃣ How to Deliver a Debugging Speech That Strikes Terror
- 4️⃣ The Art of Sarcastic Encouragement: Making AI Feel Useless (Productively)
- 5️⃣ Real Case Studies: “My Bots Were Whining, Now They Obey”