Don't forget to say "please".

I was reading an article recently ( Long-running Claude for scientific computing , if you're curious). It was a great article about how to set up Claude for an in-depth fire-and-forget task. It also completely missed the point of what I was hoping to find. I once read that the world is wasting millions of tokens saying "please" and "thank you" to their LLMs, that they are throwing money down the toilet. Shooting politeness into the void. I would like to propose that the opposite might be true. W