I remember reading something from OpenAI’s CEO once where he said they churn millions on people saying please and thank you.

All the time. Sometimes they do an absolutely bang-up job.

Rather not waste tokens. Saying thank you literally costs you money.

The model's reward function is its own reward. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Only for the models where I'm not paying per token.

Not so much "thank you" but I find myself telling it stuff like "could you please do x etc" a lot.

I've come to terms with it. If AGI ever comes it'll go like hey, at least this sack of meat said please.. Let's kill it last :-)

Me: Thanks! Claude, you did a great job.

Claude Code: Anytime. I'm glad we nailed it together. Happy to help. bla bla bla....

Me: Thanks! Codex, you did a great job.

Codex: Understood.

It finally clicked to me when Peter Steinberger mentioned that 50% of Codex's workforce is European.

I dont, but sometimes I say please.

Best regards