Autocomplete for your personality

Sam Altman once said millions of dollars are wasted on people thanking LLMs.

So people conclude you should not do it. It is pointless. Maybe even wrong.

I don’t think so.

When you talk to an LLM, psychologically you are not talking to a machine. You are talking to a mirror. Your brain still runs the “conversation with another human” mode. 🧠

And that matters.

Treat the LLM like shit and technically nothing happens. But something does change.

You.

The way you talk to an LLM is basically practice for how you talk in general. To anyone. Do it 100 times a day and your brain optimizes it. It gets cached. Autocomplete for your personality. ⚡

At some point you will slip and talk to a person the same way.

Keep being respectful and the worst thing that happens is you become a slightly better human. Horrible outcome. 😄

So yes, thanking the LLM might waste a few GPU cycles 🤖

But being thoughtful in how you write? That investment compounds.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.