> If you want to work on the problem, you can do that when you're ready, at your own initiative, not in the middle of what you're actually trying to do.

As I explained earlier, what we were actually trying to do was debug the problem, and reading the error message was a necessary part of that.

It’s weird you’ve cooked up this little fantasy that the error message was getting in the way when it was the most important thing in the whole process and that was the entire point of the anecdote.

> Reflexively dismissing error message popups is reasonable behavior because they're almost always unhelpful.

Not when you’re trying to debug the problem the error message is telling you about!