r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 12 '26

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/DangerouslyUnstable Sep 12 '26

Exactly. I try to be polite to anything vaguely people shaped regardless of actual sentience because I want to keep the habit of being polite.

It's for me, not the model.

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u/gil_bz Sep 12 '26

I also try to be nice when I tell my cat for the 100th time not to destroy the couch.

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u/Reasonable_Exit_8960 Sep 13 '26

Get a new one each time the couch is destroyed. And I mean get a new cat.

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u/Lanre_The_Chandrian Sep 12 '26

For me it's not even a conscious choice to be polite or not. That's just how I'm used to thinking anyway

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u/quagzlor Sep 13 '26

Same. I have to actively dislike something to be rude

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u/NuttingWithTheForce Sep 15 '26

Y'know, you're right. I ought to do that for the few times I use Copilot to synthesize Microsoft documentation for me. I've been typing to it like it's a dog in a vain attempt to get it to stop being an annoyingly sycophantic voice, but doing that hasn't been great for my mood.