Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?

Hi,

As I am coding day in day out using Opus, I was wondering if people here had a view on the effect of input style on the quality of the agent's production?

Like if I treat the agent like shit, with a great deal of pressure and shaming, does it perform differently than if I treat him with the utmost deference and calm?

And if so, which should I be using?

I am usually talking nice to my agent, because I am worried that if I trash talk it all day long, it's going to become a habit and I am going to start trash talk other people.

But sometimes the agents do a lot of irritating skin, and being a total asshole to a robot seems to calm my nerves the same way swearing aloud do.

Does it make any difference at all?

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