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Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
Sometimes I catch myself doing this and it feels pretty silly in retrospect
Or sometimes they fix a bug and I instinctively go back to tell them the fix worked even though I could just close the session at that point.
- 1337h4xx 4mo agoThe model's reward function is its own reward. No need to reinvent the wheel.
- jr_isidore 4mo agoAll the time. Sometimes they do an absolutely bang-up job.
- pradeep1177 4mo agoMe: Thanks! Claude, you did a great job. Claude Code: Anytime. I'm glad we nailed it together. Happy to help. bla bla bla.... Me: Thanks! Codex, you did a great job. Codex: Understood. It finally clicked to me when Peter Steinberger mentioned that 50% of Codex's workforce is European.
- drstewart 4mo agoCan't relate. ChatGPT is so much more snivelling than Gemini, for example.
- dyingkneepad 4mo agoOnly for the models where I'm not paying per token.
- preetham_rangu 4mo ago[flagged]
- lgl 4mo agoNot so much "thank you" but I find myself telling it stuff like "could you please do x etc" a lot. I've come to terms with it. If AGI ever comes it'll go like hey, at least this sack of meat said please.. Let's kill it last :-)
- jryan49 4mo agoRather not waste tokens. Saying thank you literally costs you money.
- mejutoco 4mo agoI dont, but sometimes I say please. Best regards
- R0ughn3ck 4mo ago[flagged]
- qsoomro 4mo agoI remember reading something from OpenAI’s CEO once where he said they churn millions on people saying please and thank you.
- journal 4mo agoYou soon won't be able to afford to thank if they start decommissioning old models unless you run local. You are literally wasting energy, it's like leaving your care running for a few minutes for no reason.
- continuational 4mo agoI do, and frankly I enjoy my day more when I don't feel like I'm being a jerk, even towards a robot. But mostly as part of a follow up message. I also think it signals that I was happy with that solution in the ongoing conversation. On the other hand, I'm much more sloppy with my writing. The token cost is irrelevant, tool calls and reasoning probably dominates.
- frangonf 4mo agoI never write thanks specially if we are finishing. If there are no more interactions is simply wasting money. But when adding new messages I almost always start with "ok great, now let's continue with..." when previous job is ok, so I "reinforce" the clanker as much as I reinforce myself in my train of thought.
- FloatArtifact 4mo agoShould I thank my washing machine for washing clothes? I'm careful not to project humanity onto an inanimate objects.