It needs to be subservient

It doesn’t. Computer interfaces had no superfluous subservient text for their entire history prior to LLMs. Some of these interfaces have been highly efficient as tools, arguably more efficient than more recent software in many cases.

When people complain about LLMs being subservient, they’re not complaining about the tool fulfilling their request. They’re complaining about being forced to read a lot of superfluous, overly polite, or even self-deprecating language. There’s nothing in the entire history of tools (going back to Neolithic times) that would indicate that we need that. All of that stuff is an artifact of social interaction between humans in the presence of cultural norms.

When you’re alone in your shop with your tools, you don’t need your bandsaw to apologize to you for nicking your finger.

> Computer interfaces had no superfluous subservient text for their entire history prior to LLMs

Clippy would like to help you correct this statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant