They're trained to be helpful. They're the polar opposite of confrontational. They're, in fact, quite pleasant to communicate with, as coders go.
I like to think of myself as having been a pretty chill person IRL all my life. But I can be blunt sometimes. Curt, even. Especially when I'm under stress.
But as a result of communicating with a few different coding agents for the last couple years, I find that I'm more civil with people.
I feel like I have more patience in situations where I would have lost it way quick. Even when ordinarily I'd express my frustration under certain stressful circumstances.
I think the super chill, civil nature of the coding agents I've been hanging out with is rubbing off on me.
I wonder if anybody else has had a similar realization.
I would not say the LLM is the core driver though, and while it helps me reflect, it is the broader world and what's happening in society that motivates me
"be the change you want to see in the world"
(don't expect perfection from yourself or others, do expect improvement)