Comment by op00to
14 days ago
I don't think anyone needs to change their language. I understand that it's a common way to indicate candor, but it's hilariously inappropriate for a computer to say "some times I might lie to you to save your feelings, but this time, you really are ugly and you need to know."
The computer isn't saying anything. It does not think or have agency. It just replicates what people might say in a context. And people might say what you put in quotes, without it being hilariously inappropriate.
Of course if you tink of the computer as a person you get strange results. A compiler error isn't the compiler telling me anything. It's the compiler writer telling me something. So a compiler error might contain a joke, and the joke might make sense, although obviously computers and compilers don't have a sense of humour.