Being polite with your software tools to make them work is not an invention of the AI bros. The venerable INTERCAL already pionered the concept in the early 1970s with the PLEASE modifier.
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@fluidlogic This is the future they stole from us.
@amoroso I'm laughing aloud here! Perfect.
@amoroso "PLEASE GIVE UP" is traditionally the last source line and, if I remember correctly, the spec says the program should go into a loop if programmer forgets this line :-)
@amoroso Sean Haas of #AdventOfComputing did a fun job of introducing INTERCAL: https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-78-intercal-and-esoterica
Advent of Computing: Episode 78 - INTERCAL and Esoterica