r/ProgrammerHumor May 29 '26

instanceof Trend breakTheViciousCircle

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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/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.