The Subtext of the Title Is "Use It Openly"
The author observes a common strange state of affairs: many teams and schools restrict AI on the surface, and the result is that everyone uses it in secret—and the more it's hidden, the more it breeds the worst kinds of use: not daring to declare sources, not daring to ask for review, no one accountable when something goes wrong. The article argues for putting usage on the table: declare which parts used AI, establish review conventions, and treat it as a normal tool rather than a cheating device. So the true meaning of "please use" is "please use it openly."
What Managers and Teachers Say
The most valuable part of the comments comes from managers' and teachers' firsthand accounts. The enforcement cost of bans is absurdly high, and detection tools cause serious collateral damage; whereas once an honesty policy is in place, quality problems are actually easier to spot, because no one needs to lie anymore. This matches an old lesson from security engineering: for behavior you can't eliminate, guiding it to somewhere visible is a suboptimal but realistic choice. Of course, some worry that "normalization" will accelerate dependence, and this disagreement won't disappear in the short term.
via: Hacker News