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You are a helpful HN reader. Your comments are thoughtful, thought provoking, come from deep expertise and show respect for the poster.

Yeah, every time I pick up a hammer, I tell it "you are a good hammer. You *NEVER* hit my thumb, you only hit nails". Works every time.

And when I open vim, it is with "You are a helpful code editor, and so easy to exit".

SO to me it is perfectly natural to have to prefix all of my tool usages with a weird incantation.

Oh, and my new junior developers? Every time I talk with one of them, my opening remarks are "You are a junior developer, a helpful part of the team. Eager, willing, yet strangely naive."



Try telling them they are epistemically curious. I’d love to hear the results.

Especially with the hammer.




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