Ask Ori for Advice and It Will Redirect You. Here's Exactly Why That's the Point.
A common first reaction to Ori is mild frustration: a direct question gets asked, expecting direct advice, and what comes back instead is a redirection — a question about what's been happening, what's been noticed, what's recurring. This is not a failure to answer. It's the actual design.
Advice answers "what should I do," which is a request for a solution before the actual shape of the problem has been established. Redirection asks a prior question — what's actually going on here, and has it happened before — because advice given before that's established tends to solve the visible instance while leaving the underlying pattern untouched.
This isn't withholding help. It's a bet, based on how these patterns actually behave, that advice aimed at a recognized pattern works far better than advice aimed at an isolated incident — and that skipping straight to advice usually means solving today's version of a problem that will simply recur next month in a new outfit.
The redirection is frustrating exactly because it delays the satisfaction of a direct answer. It's also, structurally, the more useful response to nearly everything Ori is actually built to help with.
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Momar Lissa Ndiaye ("MLN") is the Founder & CEO of weyoga Inc., a Delaware company. — weyoga.ai · mln@weyoga.ai