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Stop Advertising in Your Commits
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#12I much prefer this over the alternative where people use AI to code without anyone knowing.
No, the post doesn't say about hiding that, you can write "created by AI" or "helped by LLM". The post is about advertising for commercial products.
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#13I want to know when things are slop or not. At least programmers are willing to admit they're generating slop, unlike social media and blog posts.
Also, if I publish something online, you don't get to tell me what I can and can't put there (except for reasonable exemptions for hate speech and such, of course). If you don't like repos that tag their slop, go read someone else's code. Feel free to write a filter in your adblocker for the dozen AI tools you usually find.
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#14I have to assume these aren’t just ads, but also a critical RLHF avenue for Anthropic. I imagine they scrape these commits from GitHub and compare them against what Claude provided to the user. If the diff that is pushed is different it means the human had to refine the LLM output and that can be fed back in as training data. Presumably semantic search could enable you to find the matching Claude Code session.
I really doubt they bother. 99% of people don't edit the commits by hand, they review and then tell Claude how to edit the commits (or leave a PR comment it reads), that's far easier to ingest than the tiny exhaust of manual edits.
LLM providers ask for RLHF feedback in terms of thumbs up/down in their Web UI. That's just one bit of information, given only at the user's whim. The hand-refined code is gold by comparison. They're already scraping all of GitHub. They have the technology and resources to semantic search. I would be shocked if they haven't at least tried.
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#15Same for stars on repositories, it just incentivizes botting for startups.
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#16I much prefer this over the alternative where people use AI to code without anyone knowing.
No, the post doesn't say about hiding that, you can write "created by AI" or "helped by LLM". The post is about advertising for commercial products.
Their rant was about any and all AI notices in commits. They specifically state that merge requests is where that belongs.
I personally disagree and think commit messages makes the most sense. But I also think it's up to the personal preference of whoever owns the repository.
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#17I much prefer this over the alternative where people use AI to code without anyone knowing.
Who really cares, though? AI is just a tool. If the code is good, the code is good.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s both
> Sent from my iPhone. I agree. It's both an ad and a useful signal of where the code came from or how it was created. Just like the default iPhone email signature, it's an ad and a hint that the author was typing with their thumbs, so it's probably a brief auto-corrected message for that reason.
The iPhone analogy is very apt and accurate: it's ~95% advertising and ~5% useful signal.
Which for my repositories means I want ~95% less of it in my commit history. I'm prepared to round up for simplicity. But to each their own.