Don’t be an ass

This is a handy set of guidelines for using AI at work, acknowledging that if you toss unexamined AI-output onto your colleagues for review, they will not thank you for it. The principles here are to be responsible for whatever you are sharing—whether you used AI or not—and to be transparent about when you did use AI. I would use these guidelines not as-is but as starting point for a discussion with your own teams about how you are working together, and how that work is changing. Already I am seeing examples of the gendered and racial dynamics of how AI-generated code and docs are being shared: cishet white men are much more likely to share workslop without first doing any reading, while women and people of color are more likely to be on the receiving end of a request to review that slop. If you recognize yourself in the first part of that dynamic—well, here’s your invitation to stop being an asshole; if you recognize yourself in the latter, you can use these guidelines to get a discussion going, but at some point, you’re going to have to refuse.