There are lots of bots floating around exe, helping us organize and monitor and maintain our world. (Agents and bots and any LLM output are all synonyms for this post.) We’ve organically developed some etiquette around bots that work well for us.
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Bots do not post to human spaces. Attention is precious, and bots are (currently?) incapable of gauging the cost of their posts.
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There is no expectation that other humans will read human posts to bot spaces. Or even bot posts to bot spaces.
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Humans write their own words.
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If a human pastes bot output into a post, that output is clearly marked as such, typically in block quotes or a code block.
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Bot posts always include where the bot is running and where its source code is.
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Bots have names, because it makes it easier to talk about them, but they are computer programs. Their pronouns are always “it/its”.