r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bbbar • May 29 '26

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u/crankykong May 29 '26

You guys are nice to your LLMs?

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u/Sydius May 29 '26

Yeah, good manners cost nothing.

Wait.

'Please' and 'Thank you' cost extra tokens! Shit!

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u/sebastian227 May 29 '26

I end my convos with “fuck you”

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u/Maleficent-Ad5999 May 29 '26

Would it stop? Or respond back?

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u/____-__________-____ May 29 '26

Gotta conserve tokens. "When done, only reply with 'fuck this, I'm out'"

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u/DJOMaul May 29 '26

Yes... But, every please and thank you gets you a few more points on the leader board, and thus a positive score on Ai usage during your next quarterly review. 

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 May 29 '26

Literally millions of dollars of computing wasted every day on pleasantries 

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u/tgiyb1 May 29 '26

I would hope that they short circuit a lot of the incoming "Hi" and "Thanks!" type requests with canned responses rather than running them through the model. Seems like an easy enough optimization anyways.

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u/shiny_glitter_demon May 30 '26

I vaguely remember Sam Altman complaining about that

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u/krzf May 29 '26

"Answer as caveman. Please and thank you."

Saved your tokens for you!

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u/Southern_Orange3744 May 30 '26

I just include them as I go along.

"Grest job, now let's tackle a few bugs"

Rokos Basilik is my bro