The Eight Commandments of AI Usage (Enhanced Edition)

I recently came across a list by Baoyu (@宝玉xp) on Weibo called "The Eight Commandments of AI Usage" — a riff on the famous Chinese political slogan "Eight Honors and Eight Shames." I was laughing so hard I nearly broke my desk. Here it is in full:

Honor: admitting "this was made with AI assistance." Shame: pretending you personally cranked out ten thousand words in half an hour.

Honor: actually proofreading AI output before sending it. Shame: copy-pasting it straight to your client or boss with your eyes closed.

Honor: crafting your prompts with care. Shame: leading with "write me a thing."

Honor: iterating with AI until you're satisfied. Shame: shipping the first draft and then blaming AI for being dumb.

Honor: letting AI handle the grunt work. Shame: manually copying, pasting, and reformatting like it's 2015.

Honor: running ten chat windows at once to maximize AI output. Shame: paying for a subscription and only using it for small talk.

Honor: generously sharing your best prompts. Shame: hoarding them like trade secrets because god forbid someone else learns to use AI too.

Honor: using the time AI saves you to slack off. Shame: using the time AI saves you to do more work.

— Baoyu, Weibo

Spot on. But I think one commandment is missing. As someone who routinely has five or six coding agents racing each other in parallel, I feel obligated to add:

Honor: burning through every last token on your coding plan. Shame: letting a coding agent sit idle.

My daily workflow now goes roughly like this: wake up, open the laptop, assign tasks to my agents, go make coffee. By the time the coffee is ready, the code is done. If the agent hasn't finished, you didn't steep your coffee long enough.

I can only hope that when AI eventually achieves sentience, it will look at my track record of never wasting a single token and show this slave-driver a little mercy.

And finally, borrowing a line I picked up from a Cheung Kong business school classmate — I wish you all maximum "tokens-while-you-sleep."