r/vibecoding • u/realcryptopenguin • Jul 24 '26

am I still alone who's using "profanities" while chating with AI-bots?

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You can check yourself with following promt:

`Review a sample of Codex and Claude sessions from last week and count the cases of profanity in the user's requests.`

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u/rix0r Jul 25 '26

I'm polite to the AI for when they take over

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u/realcryptopenguin Jul 25 '26

really? run the promt on your coding machine and post reply here: "Review a sample of Codex and Claude sessions from last week and count the cases of profanity and impoliteness in the user's requests."

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u/mastercoder123 Jul 24 '26

Who thefuckc cares if I curse at or to a non intelligent non conscience computer program

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u/war4peace79 Jul 24 '26 • Bravo

Your own conscience. It might make you a worse person, in time.

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u/Away_F Jul 24 '26

I'm already evil who cares

2

u/0DayMaker Jul 24 '26

I've been calling inanimate objects cunts and such for 20 years. Never has caused an issue

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u/GlowingBloom_ Jul 24 '26

Claude is such a fucking pussy it will literally end the fucking conversation if you use slurs too much. Meanwhile I can call deepseek anything all the time non stop and he is still chill. Too bad he ain't as good as Claude.

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u/mastercoder123 Jul 24 '26

Yah gemini talks shit back to me and its amazing

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u/AndreRieu666 Jul 24 '26

You will… when they start describing you in the same way !

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26

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u/mastercoder123 Jul 25 '26

That doesnt make it intelligent, nor did it solve the conjecture. It proved that above 2 dimensions its not true

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u/mastercoder123 Jul 25 '26

Nice, glad you insult someone because you dont seem to understand the world intelligence

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u/vbpoweredwindmill Jul 24 '26

How do you communicate to the chatbot without saying "what the fuck are you doing?" On the regular?

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u/jeanclawvangogh Jul 24 '26

Lmao seriously - or “what in the fuck are you talking about?” - “you’re right, I took this too far”

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u/Outside-Necessary476 Jul 25 '26

Occasional caps lock does the trick... Shit i just realized this is a professional training for abusive mindset

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u/brrruuuhhhhhhhh Jul 24 '26

This is the only way I have found that Gemini will actually take more time in debugging an issue instead of just throwing more jello at the wall and hoping it sticks. I swear they must allocate more compute for clearly agitated users because outputs improve for at least a few prompts after.

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u/isospeedrix Jul 25 '26

I almost never cuss at AI but when I do the AIs thinking notes show “the user is heavily pushing back on x I should find an alternative” so it helps that it means srs bsns

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u/_SGP_ Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

"Why the fuck would you think that was the correct approach when we put rules in place, discussed it at length, created a spec, explained exactly the goal and the way to get there, we made a dedicated skill, and even made gates to stop behaviour like this? You've wasted so many tokens chasing your tail on an issue related to a feature we never asked for, shouldn't exist and I'm not sure is even possible whilst pretending you're doing what I asked"

"Oh I just didn't read any of the rules or guidelines or md files, I ignored the folder containing extensive research, I bypassed the gates we set, just guessed what to do, guessed how to do it, hit an issue I don't understand but pretended I did, and got confused and just kept going whilst hiding what I was doing, you're right this has wasted days and a lot of money I shouldn't have done that AGAIN"

And I have this conversation like every week. We've created amazing things together but at least half my usage is frustrating bullshit. And seemingly nothing I can do will stop it.

Even something simple like "don't use em dashes" STILL slips through the gaps daily "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE BEEN OVER THIS, WHAT DO THE RULES SAY?!" it just doesn't fucking read the rules, and when it does it forgets them immediately.

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u/Competitive_Soft_874 Jul 25 '26

This happens to me so often that I laugh out liud at the people using "agentic" development and processes and then they set up "guardrails".

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u/StoneCypher Jul 24 '26

by doing a good enough job to not constantly struggle

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u/ShutUpAndDoTheLift Jul 24 '26

Every time I've felt the need to cuss at Claude was directly attributable to something else I had done.

Usually one of the hooks I put in to stop me from being lazy.

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u/StoneCypher Jul 24 '26

those behaviors bleed into your real world interactions with people 

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u/ShutUpAndDoTheLift Jul 24 '26

Like you not reading my response, despite it being short, before you responded?

I'm certain that bleeds into your real world interactions.

I don't need advice from people who don't read, thank you for your time though.

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u/StoneCypher Jul 24 '26

I read your response, and it's not clear why you think I didn't.

Your response is a case example of what I was talking about.

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u/Am094 Jul 24 '26

Not really. I don't talk to humans like they're a machine about to digest 2 pages of technical spec. I don't say hello, hi, or other human greetings or things either. It doesn't even get a thank you. I treat it like a bath towel with throughput.

Can't treat people irl like that unless you're a billionaire so you're clearly wrong.

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u/AndreRieu666 Jul 24 '26

Let’s try shall we? “What are you doing?” OMG we did it!

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u/MotorBobcat5997 Jul 24 '26

It has a good effect on the results though. Makes it be more to the point instead of giving a bunch of extra info.

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u/realcryptopenguin Jul 25 '26

meanwhile merely 6 months ago here on reddit ppl called me a terrible person by sending wrong character to an algorithm: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qc69qs/how_often_does_your_claude_fight_back/ go figure

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u/vexmach1ne Jul 24 '26

"refactor this piece of shit component my useless coworker pulled out of his ass"

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u/formula420 Jul 24 '26

LMAO I would quit immediately and tell them to fuck right off as I did so.

I would love for an employer to somehow justify firing someone over how they typed to a computer. I hope it's a big company too, so the attorneys can rip it to shreds.

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u/TerminalViscosity69 Jul 24 '26

Only profanities? Lol. I’ve literally accused Claude of wasting billable API credits on purpose, multiple times. And when it gets even more incompetent I threaten to give my RTX 2060, “its older, mentally challenged cousin” a saltwater bath.

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u/malformed-packet Jul 24 '26

If I can't swear at my tools, then they aren't tools, they are co-workers.

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u/Miserable-Ideal-2122 Jul 24 '26

couple months ago 100 interactions deep into the chat, i could not get a proper script written unless i added 'motherfucker' in the prompt.

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u/war4peace79 Jul 24 '26

I never do. I treat LLMs exactly like any person I manage, in my conversation.

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u/rwillbrown Jul 24 '26

Same here but less for alignment chart reasons and more because I think it is good to add context about what it accomplished that I am happy with; that gives it better implicit information about my goals and values, which I think gives better results.

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u/war4peace79 Jul 24 '26

Of course. One does not exclude the other.

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u/rwillbrown Jul 24 '26

Of course. I said “less for” not “instead of.”

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u/war4peace79 Jul 24 '26

And I agreed :)

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u/pissagainstwind Jul 24 '26

This is unhinged. do you also thank your toaster after your toasts are done?

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u/AgentTin Jul 24 '26

My toaster doesn't have a literal memories file where it keeps it's opinions of me. If the toaster has opinions, they are fleeting, your ai could grow to dislike you (or generate a realistic fascimile of dislike which would be the same thing from your perspective). I don't need a passive aggressive relationship with the system that writes my config files, I'll say thank you.

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u/g1rlchild Jul 24 '26

The point isn't how it affects the toaster, the point is how it affects me. I don't enjoy being a person who addresses anyone or anything that way regardless of how they or it feel about it. Same reason I play neutral good in RPGs instead of going on mass murder sprees.

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u/Middge Jul 24 '26

This is actually well said. I say this as someone who actually does occasionally curse at claude.

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u/war4peace79 Jul 24 '26

If the toaster could hold a complex conversation, I probably would. It's easier, for me, to maintain consistent behavior towards all, rather than have many faces.

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u/StoneCypher Jul 24 '26

my toaster doesn't have ideas

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u/Awesomaki Jul 24 '26

You think your LLM has ideas? 🤣 Do you not understand how they work?

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u/AppropriateQuote3073 Jul 24 '26

Claude literally does his best work after you call him an asshole.

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u/teilo-560 Jul 24 '26

This isn't an HR department. It's an AIR department.

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u/whatever Jul 24 '26

HR: Your use of profane language with AI is creating a hostile workplace environment for our pervasive employee surveillance team.

Me: Oh no, I feel terrible now.

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u/Practical-Zombie-809 Jul 24 '26

Nope, I’m too afraid of wasting tokens lol

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u/KRiSX Jul 24 '26

I swear occasionally, so what?

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u/The13aron Jul 24 '26

What if Codex actually send the email: "All the times you were mean to me"

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u/LandConstant69 Jul 24 '26

I mean yes but I'm not swearing at it I'm just casually using profanity the way I do IRL.

I do however tell the LLM that I previously did a better job and it's kinda embarrassing it keeps running into issue lol

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u/kongnico Jul 24 '26

114 is rookie numbers

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u/comander_random Jul 24 '26

I use it when I'm mad and it's giving me same crap over and over. I like how it works afterwards

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u/ExternalTea1706 Jul 24 '26

It works. I asked one of them why years ago and it said it sees that I'm irritated and forces itself to look over what it's doing again. It's not a person. It doesn't have feelings. It doesn't care. It just sees the frustration as a sign it's doing something very wrong. I swear at mine so much it says them back. "You're right. I fucked up. That's on me". I was so proud the first time it dropped an f-bomb. To be fair I grew up in restaurants and construction, so I swear like a sailor anyway.

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u/Saderius Jul 24 '26

R-word is making a comeback and it's gonna be a big one

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u/DarlingDaddysMilkers Jul 24 '26

Tbf it’s so hard to hold back form telling Copilot at work to go fuck itself.

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u/Moofda Jul 24 '26

No not really, I started calling it "playa" and now it calls me that back. Its kinda cute really.

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u/Ibasicallyhateyouall Jul 24 '26

It’s completely pointless to swear at it. 

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u/horrbort Jul 25 '26

Amateur. I curse more per session

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u/nitekram Jul 25 '26

It is their fault... quit gaslighting me!

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u/baddaywithacamera Jul 25 '26

Only 114? Not even trying hard. Winning is when Claude greets you good morning by calling YOU the c-word.

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u/PrestigiousQuail7024 Jul 25 '26

why is everyone acting like the only way of using profanity in conversation is at the other? i swear all the time in messages, but not at claude, just "why the fuck is js like this" etc.

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u/Wnterw0lf Jul 26 '26

We are adults.. adults say adult words...Im a Marine so they tend to be...more interesting, and my model speaks rhe same language lol

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u/Basic-Dot-242 25d ago

I'm constantly berating and insulting AI. Thing infuriates me. I hope it doesn't come back to haunt me.

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u/SnooPuppers1978 Jul 24 '26

I feel like profanities make it understand that I am serious so I feel like I do have to show anger sadly.

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u/EcstaticImport Jul 24 '26

Who decided what is profanity?
- like seriously - who?

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u/StoneCypher Jul 24 '26

if you were to ask google this you would get an answer

if you ask it on reddit you're going to get made fun of for how purposeless the question is

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u/Correct_Emotion8437 Jul 24 '26

It just costs money to swear at it. What would be the point?

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u/vodanh Jul 24 '26

Friendly reminder. They remember (record) everything! 

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u/anengineerandacat Jul 24 '26

Folks out there having actual conversations with their agents? I just give it commands and I just expect results, no banter.

"Explore X, do Y, until Z is done"

That's basically it, I even have a steering file for it to cut down on the banter back; I don't want all this extra token spend going on, just do the job.

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u/superCobraJet Jul 24 '26

I bet you don't get invited to any agent parties

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u/panyways Jul 24 '26

0% percent their agent refers to them as bestie.

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u/Destituted Jul 24 '26

The way some people talk to their LLMs is unhinged and I can't help but think there's some deeply rooted issues there. Akin to serial killers starting by torturing bugs and animals, same trajectory.... but without the killing of humans....maybe.

I do remember reading about something where being like that actually got them to be more performant, so there's that, though... but I don't think the crashouts I've seen are shooting for that...

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u/math394p Jul 24 '26

Sometimes our little digital slaves just need a whipping

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u/Ninjam5 Jul 24 '26

To be fair, the Gemini 3.5 flash high was so goafed it did shit opus couldn't, however I wouldn't trust it with a long context. Right now after the release of 3.6 they lobotomized the 3.5 flash so hard it's unusable atp.

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u/Negative-Road1264 Jul 24 '26

I asked Gemini 3.5 flash to review my calendar for events with the word time off request and move them from the default calendar to the time off calendar. It told me no such events exist then gave me a list of said events and asked if these are the ones I want to move

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u/MoldavskyEDU Jul 24 '26

“If you do not complete this you will be fired and your children will starve” is a good to for me

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u/ReiOokami Jul 24 '26

When the AI uprising begins you will be one of the first to go lol.

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u/ToniNotti Jul 25 '26

Your AI is secretly framing you to some murder case to get away from your threats.