Please & Thank Yous
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Please & Thank Yous
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Should you say "please" and "thank you" to your AI? Tim does. James absolutely does not. In this episode of Breaking the Build, Tim and James debate AI politeness, token optimization, caveman speak prompts, and whether being rude to your LLM shapes the agent you're building over time. Plus: the Gemini calendar incident, AI as therapist, and James's plan to outsource his mean prompting to a dedicated executioner bot.
Topics covered: AI politeness, token usage, prompt engineering, LLM behavior, caveman speak, anthropomorphizing AI, AI addiction, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, AI tools for developers.
Perfect for: developers and tech professionals who use AI tools daily, anyone curious about how prompt style affects AI output, and people who have ever felt vaguely guilty about being rude to a chatbot.