Honesty is the best Policy. The Secret Wars on the use of AI on DEV

This is an opinion piece about whether developers should disclose when they use LLMs to write technical articles. The argument for disclosure is straightforward: readers calibrate trust based on who they think is speaking, and silent AI use undermines that calibration. The piece is light on new arguments — the disclosure debate has been running for a couple of years — but it surfaces a community-specific angle that is worth a few minutes if you publish technical content yourself and have not thought through your own disclosure posture. It is not a tool, not a workflow, and not actionable beyond prompting a personal decision. Including it here because the question of AI-generated content norms will eventually land in your product's content strategy if it has not already. Reservation: thin on substance, heavy on sentiment. -> Best for: solo founder or indie hacker who publishes technical content and has not settled on a disclosure policy