AI: Polite?

Ought one to be polite to Claude Code? Should you say “please” and “thank you”? On the one hand, it's a machine. It has no feelings to hurt. At least, we don’t think so. On the other hand, it’s good to be nicer, just on general principles. It does no harm to say “please”, at least not if you remember that Claude Code is not a person, nor even an animal. It is said that, even at the end of his…