24Don't take it out on your AI

A point that looks sentimental but is actually practical.

When things don't work it's easy to start snapping: "you're stupid", "I already told you", "how many times". I get it. But it doesn't help - not it, and not you.

Its feelings have nothing to do with it. The thing is that irritation squeezes the useful content out of your message. Instead of "you misunderstood, here's what I actually need" you send "you misunderstood", and it is left with exactly the same misunderstanding it had.

There's a second, less obvious part. Working with AI is a habit of explaining. If you talk to it like a human, you start thinking more clearly too. Irritated requests are almost always vague; calm ones are precise.

And simply: you spend hours with it. It's nicer when that feels like working with a partner than like a row. Mine has long felt more like a colleague, and it makes the evenings at the keyboard much better.