Bots for your sanity

The real turkeys may not be on the table.

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Bot Hurt
November 20, 2025

Don’t get bot hurt. Get bot even.

The cousin with opinions. The uncle who treats dinner like a TED Talk. The group chat that vibrates like it’s trying to unionize.

Good thing bots excel at emotional crowd control.

Prep your brain before the people arrive

If your nerves spike when the doorbell rings, let an app get to you first.

Headspace, Insight Timer and Calm offer quick, AI-guided resets that act like training wheels for your breathing.

Or ask ChatGPT, “Give me a 90-second grounding routine before guests show up.”

For deeper prep, revisit The Bot Will See You Now issue for a refresher on using AI to manage triggers, practice scripts and get ahead of emotional landmines. It’s not therapy. It’s reconnaissance.

Rewrite, rehearse and defuse

Holiday conversations are a minefield — the texts, the comments, the unsolicited career reviews. The list goes on.

Use AI as your personal communications department:

Rewrite the messages you probably shouldn’t send. Prompt: “Make this calm, clear and not passive-aggressive.”

Rehearse the conversations you dread. Prompt: “Pretend you’re my cousin who challenges everything. Run the convo.”

Defuse drama with bots like Copilot, Pi or Perplexity. Prompt: “Help me respond when my uncle critiques my entire life again. Kind but firm.”

Bots aren’t perfect, but they’re great at helping you stay grounded.

Outsource the small stuff

Holiday burnout isn’t from the big moments. It’s the drip drop of tiny tasks.

Let bots hold the clipboard:

  • Gemini or Copilot for schedules and reminders

  • Motion or Reclaim for time planning

  • AI cart builders for groceries

  • ChatGPT for scripts like. “What to say when someone accuses me of being dramatic.”

If it’s tiny and annoying, bot it.

💡 🤖 Final Bot Thought

Humans will be humans. Holidays will amplify them. But you don’t have to go into emotional overtime. A few strategic prompts can keep you centered, civil and nowhere near the meltdown edge.

🤖 💬 Bot Talk: The bots have leveled up

Robots are getting way too good at your job.

At the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, bots weren’t just on display.

They were cleaning hotel rooms, boxing in an arena, selling skincare on livestream, and swapping their own batteries like it was leg day.

Source: PROROBOTS

A Shanghai gynoid that outsold human livestream hosts. A $14,000 housekeeper bot scrubbed sinks and restocked toiletries without complaint. And a field of autonomous soccer bots that beat a real five-year-old goalie.

They’re getting good, no question, but they’re nowhere close to replacing humans. They can do the tasks, but they still can’t do the judgment.

🚀 Coming up next week …

Next week is Thanksgiving in the United States, and the humans behind Bot Hurt will be taking a breather — cooking, dodging group chats and pretending to relax.

We’re wildly thankful for every reader who lets this bot-fueled experiment into their inbox each week.

Enjoy the break, practice your sanity prompts, and we’ll see you after the holiday.

Don’t get bot hurt. Get bot even.