Decide when your AI use needs disclosing

Judgment callMedium15 minAnthropic and OpenAI style

Your task

Your team has no written rule on disclosing AI help. In one sprint, you used an assistant 4 ways:

  1. It wrote a throwaway Python script that backfilled one column, once.
  2. It wrote a non-trivial concurrency change in your Java payment service.
  3. It suggested the wording of a customer-facing error message.
  4. It drafted a design doc that you then rewrote heavily.

For which of these does disclosure matter, and what principle decides?

It covers

  • Disclosure
  • Professional norms
  • Judgment