[d-cc]

>We didn't disqualify anyone for using AI, we disqualified them because of their dishonesty. If you can't trust someone in an interview, how can you trust them in a remote environment?

Radical honesty has been a core cultural component to many a strong team, I'm glad to see somebody else mention this. There seems to be something unique about the relationship between codering and the concepts of transparency, honesty, and truth more broadly.

Or maybe that's just a consequence of version control :)

[lazide]

It’s a fundamental part of (reliable) engineering. Many a person has died historically when in ‘harder’ engineering someone was hiding things, and someone being able to acknowledge their lack of knowledge is key to not getting into that state - or being able to progress/grow at all, IMO.

Chernobyl being one prominent example.

At least in a field like engineering where actual successful results/working output matters, anyway.

There are other fields where the same dynamics are not in play.

One cannot solve (or even avoid) a problem that one refuses to acknowledge exists, after all.

[93po]

I don't think radical honesty would ever work in a workplace. A very high level, yes, but not radical as it's usually meant.

[d-cc]

The relationship of capitalism to truth is very significant as well, or maybe 'value generation' would be a better term to use here than capitalism.

Or as I usually phrase it, 'money is allergic to lies'.

Say you have an organization that is producing a product/service that provides genuine value for its users, and have a team of talented, hardworking people. Any factors related to the operations of said organization, obscuring those factors from the value producers can only lead to less effective operation overall, as the producers have less/lower quality/false information to work with.

"I don't feel like this is workplace appropriate" does not violate the 'radical honesty' principle.

At least internally, anyway. If your objective is to make as much money as possible, you probably don't want marketing to be radically honest LOL

[dennis_jeeves2]

>There seems to be something unique about the relationship between codering and the concepts of transparency, honesty, and truth more broadly.

And what is worse than lies, is self delusion, even if honest. To nit pick on radical honesty, my observation is that most people won't tolerate it, plain honesty appears to be the sweet stop inmost cases.