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.

qsoomro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remember reading something from OpenAI’s CEO once where he said they churn millions on people saying please and thank you.

jr_isidore 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All the time. Sometimes they do an absolutely bang-up job.

jryan49 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Rather not waste tokens. Saying thank you literally costs you money.

1337h4xx 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The model's reward function is its own reward. No need to reinvent the wheel.

dyingkneepad 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only for the models where I'm not paying per token.

lgl 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not 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 :-)

pradeep1177 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Me: 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 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can't relate. ChatGPT is so much more snivelling than Gemini, for example.

mejutoco 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I dont, but sometimes I say please.

Best regards