Saying please to a chatbot no longer buys a better answer, which is exactly what makes it worth watching. Penn State ran 2,500 prompts and the rude versions scored 84.8 percent to the polite ones' 80.8; clarity won, not cruelty. On the newest models tone moves the answer by under two points, yet the pleases still cost real tokens (Altman's unaudited "tens of millions of dollars"). So the courtesy earns nothing and costs something, which is when manners get interesting. Be as blunt as you like with the machine while you work, that is grammar, not rudeness. But if a thank-you slips out at the end, do not correct it. Keep it.