An odd experience today, where I inadvertently triggered AWS’s Q programming assistant to refuse to answer my request and refer me to AWS’s responsible use of AI policy. This happens, sometimes, if I use profanity to vent in a moment of frustration. But this time, I had typed “oh, thanks for catching that, that was pretty dumb of me” into the prompt. I then apologized to the bot for its own misunderstanding. “Oh, I’m so sorry,” I wrote, “I was talking about myself. Thank you very much, this was helpful.” The bot replied, kindly acknowledging the challenging nature of the problem I’d been trying to solve, and wished me a happy new year.