A year ago, as I began testing AI models and orchestration frameworks, I caught myself doing something surprisingly human: typing „please“ into my prompts by habit.
It made me pause.
Does it actually make sense to adapt our social norms to machine interfaces? It brought back memories of a UI engineering project I led alongside scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen — brilliant minds researching the bidirectional link between language and human cognition.
Just as social media subtly rewired how we communicate, generative and agentic systems are reshaping human behavior at a fundamental level.
But looking at it through the lens of business efficiency, a much broader realization emerged:
Why spend seconds trying to save a few words in a prompt, when the real leverage lies in architecting a system that frees up thousands of hours for an entire enterprise?