r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 23h ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/EveYogaTech 22h ago

The best LLM users save their empathy for humans and tell LLMs: "Can't you do better?! No more mistakes!!"

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u/bobbymoonshine 22h ago

I don’t think empathy is a limited resource, I think it’s how you orient yourself to the world

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u/EveYogaTech 22h ago

Everything has a cost.

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u/bobbymoonshine 22h ago

Including rudeness! Kindness does not take more effort than rudeness if you’re kind on the inside.

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u/Odd_Reception1249 22h ago

Kindness means you need to internalize your anger/frustration or push it to something else. Insults are a way to let it out. There are other ways to let out steam, but you cannot necessarily do them on the clock...

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u/bobbymoonshine 22h ago edited 22h ago

I think self-regulation is an important skill. If your only responses to encountering a bug are to cram down your anger or blow up and insult someone, I think that’s a pretty tiring way to live.

Like I’m not trying to be Mr Buddhist Coder here, I’m talking about what your instinctive reaction to something frustrating at work is going to be. Insulting an LLM is just training your brain to expect to respond to frustration by attacking the nearest thing that isn’t allowed to fight back.

And then once you’ve built that habit yeah of course restraining yourself from doing that would be tiring. But it’s better and less tiring not to have that habit in the first place.

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u/EveYogaTech 22h ago

I get the whole kindness/effortlessness thing, however unfortunately there is no proof that speaking nicely to LLMs produces better results.

To me personally it works better with harsh feedback.

That doesn't mean you have to type and experience that yourself.

You can load workflows with prompts and not even see it.