To be fair, threatening my laptop with defenestration has proven quite effective in the past...

When you use an LLM as a programming assistant, this is how you start. Eventually you get frustrated and you’re mean to it, and it does what you want. Eventually you just start out mean

i yell at this thing daily because motherfucker THEY MERGED IN FRONT OF ME HOW AM I FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE

Unquestionably false. I've cursed at my bed when I've stubbed my toe, my various computers over the decades, my fridge when it broke, my A/C, hell, if I place something on the table and it slides off onto the floor later, that'll usually get a "oh fuck you!" from me.

I tried being mean to an llm to see how it would feel & chatgpt said "😯"

If the toaster burns or fails to toast my bread, or if the fridge stops cooling, I’m gonna get irritated and yell at it to vent my frustration. They don’t care - they’re inanimate objects - and I get to release my frustration. An LLM is also an inanimate object that has given me bad advice.

Ok but you see how lashing out at an inanimate object isn't very healthy for your soul

Better the object than bottling it in and taking it out in my family.