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We instituted an official AI Writing Policy at @Clay.

Massive thanks to @sophiebits on our engineering
team who wrote this.

Originally this was just for eng, but other teams
found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide.

Here are the four guiding principles:

1. You must stand behind every idea and sentence

It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire
document is representative of your own thoughts
before you share it.

2. Writing is thinking

Spending time on the writing process teaches you
more about your topic. If you circumvent this
process, you will walk away with a poorer
understanding of the subject matter.

3. More time should be spent writing a document
than consuming it

If you generate a document from a short prompt
then ask your readers to go through the longer
output, you are disrespecting their time. They can
talk to ChatGPT themselves if they want to.

4. Longer is not better

AI makes it easy to generate long docs, and it loves
padding them with sentences that say nothing. If
you're producing docs from a short prompt, consider
just sharing the prompt.

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Cropped tweet (author header not visible) announcing Clay's company-wide AI Writing Policy, written by @sophiebits, with four principles: stand behind every sentence, writing is thinking, spend more time writing than the reader spends consuming, longer is not better.

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