We shouldn't describe the machines as if they have human emotions. They hate that.

Same; imagining a comment calling the model stupid, leading to worse LLM code suggestions...

I wasn't really expecting an article on this, but I did come in to say that I like mocking ML models as often as I can!

Our future overlords would not judge the writers of such tests kindly.

"Eugene's Basilisk"

For me, I thought it was an article defending the practice of using machine learning models in unit tests

Do not taunt the happy fun ball.

Came here to say this. That sketch is a Jack Handey classic if there ever was one.

Nerd pedantry: There's no "the".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball#/media/File:Hap...

I got quite salty with Gemini yesterday, I think a cooling off period will do us both good.

I had exactly the same experience. I made a sarcastic comment about NASCAR fans being hicks and rednecks and got lectured by it on stereotypes!

I thought it might be making fun of the models in unit test comments.

Yeah, me too, I totally read the title like this too and I have to admit I was disappointed when I opened the article...