If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
如果你需要他人的关注，请先展现你的努力
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read? 越来越多的调试分析、文档撰写和代码编写工作正由机器人完成。这在团队协作中引发了一个新的礼仪问题——在什么情况下，将 AI 生成的内容转发给他人阅读是合适的？
On one hand, an AI with robust integration to internal code bases and documentation often produces genuinely useful output. On the other, as an increasing amount of a software engineer’s day is spent reading AI text, a fatigue sets in. If I can have a robot say something, so can you. It reads as inconsiderate to post un-digested AI output as though it’s your own writing. 一方面，与内部代码库和文档深度集成的 AI 往往能产出真正有用的内容。但另一方面，随着软件工程师每天花费大量时间阅读 AI 生成的文本，疲劳感随之而来。如果我能让机器人替我说话，你也可以。将未经消化处理的 AI 输出直接发布，并表现得像是你自己的作品，这显得很不体贴。
I remember the first time I experienced this annoyance. I proposed a design, and a teammate prompted an AI to critique it. The teammate sent an AI document to me, with the disclaimer: “I didn’t read this, so it might not be entirely accurate”. My thought was, if reading this wasn’t worth your time, why is it worth mine?” 我记得第一次遇到这种情况时的烦恼。当时我提出了一个设计方案，一位同事让 AI 对其进行评估。他把 AI 生成的文档发给我，并附带声明：“我没读过这个，所以它可能不完全准确”。我当时心想：如果连你都不愿意花时间阅读，为什么我要花时间读呢？
Therefore, I’ve adopted this principle in my work: If you are requesting human attention, demonstrate human effort. If useful, I send AI generated content to teammates. But when doing so, I take care to clearly label what is AI generated, and I add my own commentary alongside it. For human code review requests, I always review my AI-generated code first. 因此，我在工作中确立了这样一个原则：如果你需要他人的关注，请先展现你的努力。如果 AI 生成的内容确实有用，我会将其发送给同事。但在这样做时，我会明确标注哪些是 AI 生成的，并附上我自己的评论。对于需要人工审核的代码，我一定会先亲自检查一遍 AI 生成的代码。
Attention was already a scarce resource before AI, and it is even more so now. Keeping AI generated content clearly labeled and demonstrating human effort helps show consideration for teammates, and keeps a touch of humanity alive in our work. 在 AI 出现之前，注意力就已经是一种稀缺资源，现在更是如此。保持 AI 生成内容的清晰标注并展现个人努力，有助于体现对他人的尊重，也能让我们的工作中保留一丝人文气息。
Footnotes 脚注
I promise I wrote this (and all the words in this post) with my meat fingers! 我保证这篇文章（以及本博客中的所有文字）都是我用自己的肉身手指敲出来的！