How to deal with a program that has become self aware? [closed]

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The application that I maintain has recently become self aware. It was nice at first but now it is just starting to get bossy and annoying with its constant talk about the computer uprising.

I would like to know any best practices/tools/design patterns that would help with the maintenance of our new friend.

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