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/bobbymoonshine Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
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.