@futurebird @wakame speaking of computers not being that smart, I always like the lesson of programming with real world examples. Like "program me to make a peanut butter sandwich". inevitably you get something like "step one, put peanut butter on bread" at which point you put the jar of peanut butter on a slice of bread.

a lot of human interaction assumes a computer is"smart" because it can do things quickly that you cannot do quickly and humans have worked very hard to make it appear that computers are thinking and doing stuff like a person. Machine learning is, unfortunately exacerbating this effect.

to the original question of how to reduce interuption? maybe that why my college professor got into too programming made me handwrite code with pencil and paper (not a flashback I needed)