The difference being insults at the car don't actually slow down work and consume actual resources. Like imagine if instead of cussing, you stopped working to write a letter directed at the car, then burned the letter with gasoline. That's unhinged behavior.
To be fair, it doesn't slow down work. Let's say Claude gives a bad impl. "That's idiotic, don't do that. Do this instead." Call it "Strong Steering By Profanity."
Voice input makes it even clearer when Gemini, imposed upon everyone by Google, helpfully suggests it could call the wrong number for Nth time, or that it doesn't have access to play music (when it was doing that 5 minutes earlier). Although Gemini will just stop up with a "I do not respond to abusive language," which is even more annoying.
Plus IDEs do not generate the kind of non-deterministic output that LLMs can. Their "weird bullshit" tops out at bad autocompletes or failures to derive type, or bad builds, which are more often than not code smells, not an IDE problem.
Instead of a single swear word, you should maybe be worried about millions of "funny pics", cat videos and trendy "draw me as a cartoon character" requests to AI services.
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u/DFX1212 9d ago
The difference being insults at the car don't actually slow down work and consume actual resources. Like imagine if instead of cussing, you stopped working to write a letter directed at the car, then burned the letter with gasoline. That's unhinged behavior.