Rule 5: disclose AI use. Tell people when and how you used AI in your work.
Why
- Trust. Reviewers need to know what to check more carefully.
- Learning. A coach can only help if they see what you did yourself.
- Honesty. Using AI is fine. Hiding it is a bigger problem than the use itself.
What to disclose
For each piece of work, write one or two lines:
- What the AI did (for example: “fixed grammar”, “drafted test cases”, “built issue 12”).
- Which tool you used.
- What you checked yourself afterwards.
Where to write it
- In the merge request description.
- In your weekly note.
- In the Product Package, in a short “How I used AI” section.
A simple template
AI use for this change
- Tool: <name>
- What it did: <for example: drafted the unit tests for the lead form>
- What I decided myself: <for example: which fields the form collects>
- What I checked: <for example: I ran the tests and read every line>What AI use is always allowed
Explaining a concept, spell-checking, translating your own text, summarising to read faster, searching for facts you then verify, and building issues from a milestone you wrote.
What it never replaces
Your epics, roadmap, personas, journey conclusions and decisions. See People write epics.
Key points
- Disclose what the AI did and what you checked.
- Using AI is fine. Hiding it is not.
- The decisions stay yours and carry your name.
