AI Norms and Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True
Charity reflects on what that produced, why AI isn't special (it just amplifies what's already there), and shares the first of three new documents on Honeycomb's AI norms and values: how we do business.Read MoreWelcome to the third and final part of our series on AI norms and values. Parts of this doc were extracted and published separately on substack; as a whole, they describe the principles we hold pertaining to technology and AI, and the ethical commitments we make to each other and our customers.We set out to write about AI, and ended up writing about ourselves. These documents are not meant to be aspirational ones; they are derived from how we do our work every day in honeycomb.This concludes the series, but not the discussion.
- ▪Charity reflects on what that produced, why AI isn't special (it just amplifies what's already there), and shares the first of three new documents on Honeycomb's AI norms and values: how we do business.Read MoreWelcome to the third and fina
- ▪Parts of this doc were extracted and published separately on substack; as a whole, they describe the principles we hold pertaining to technology and AI, and the ethical commitments we make to each other and our customers.We set out to write
- ▪These documents are not meant to be aspirational ones; they are derived from how we do our work every day in honeycomb.This concludes the series, but not the discussion.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 4,808 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Honeycomb |
| Canonical URL | https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norms-values-part-3-things-we-hold-true |
| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:44:38 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-14T14:06:51.459Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-14T14:06:51.459Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | tVnYct7SxjqL · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
BlogAI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold TrueAI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold TrueThe final part of Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series: the principles the company holds true about AI as a tool, ownership of work, and rising standards; how it actually uses AI day to day; usage patterns for respecting each other's time; and where it stands on AI's ethical externalities like energy use, IP, bias, and wages.By: Charity Majors | September 9, 2026AI & LLMsCultureBlogAugust 20, 2026AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at HoneycombIt's been a year since Honeycomb issued its AI mandate.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Honeycomb.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Honeycomb
