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Berating a real person is often unproductive too, but people do it to make themselves feel better.

But it's at least plausible the person you're berating is responsible for the error.

Berating an LLM's response as a way to improve output has worked for at least some subset of LLMs and outputs. I have a coworker who told me that "hack" anyways.

One must imagine punching the wall feels good (in the moment)