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Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by arijun »

calmworm wrote: post #158
cj wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny to compare it to “Sent from iPhone” that Apple appended to emails by default way back when. It was an ad, but nobody cared because using iPhone was a point of pride.

People cared. Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately as with every service that appends any of that nonsense.

> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately

I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by cj »

arijun wrote: post #191
calmworm wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People cared. Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately as with every service that appends any of that nonsense.

> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms

Out of curiosity, do these Claude commit messages fall into the same category of "it's annoying but not worth the effort to turn it off"? If yes/no, why?

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by kaffekaka »

For now you can choose whether to share the sessions, but we all know that from now on the session transcript must be kept clean and presentable in case at some later time it is made public.

The session is from now on a stage on which to display virtues and send approved signals.

All that rambling and ranting, those explorative impulses, they will soon have to be explained and defended.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by KennyBlanken »

cj wrote: post #139
creativeSlumber wrote: post #133

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Agree, that it is an ad. Also, unless the full session (in a resume-able format, along all session artifact such as intermediate research/docs used to produce the final output) is also included in the commit, the session id is useless. I presume this is Anthropic trying to their "usage" stats before their IPO.

Funny to compare it to “Sent from iPhone” that Apple appended to emails by default way back when. It was an ad, but nobody cared because using iPhone was a point of pride.

Even as a lifelong Apple user and longtime iPhone user, that sig irritated the shit out of me and was instantly disabled whenever I set up a new device.

Also, and this may come as a shock to you and a number of other HN users: I never considered it a "point of pride." I switched because Android was a privacy dumpster fire comparatively and battery life was far better.

I also can't remember a discussion in person with folks where someone seemed "proud" to use an iPhone. If anything, the Android crowd loves to sneer at iPhone users and look down on them as idiots who need a "simpleton" phone.

I'm no simpleton. I ran custom roms and so on. Had F-droid installed, and so on. I do miss the customization, but I also look back and realize I wasted a massive amount of time on installing roms, backups, and the customizations themselves. Probably weeks of my life if not more. My iPhone? I don't. It's a phone. That runs apps. Do I wish I could install whatever I want, particularly given how secure apple's sandboxing is, and thus in theory how safe it should be? sure. but at the end of the day I want to live my life.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by cj »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #194
cj wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny to compare it to “Sent from iPhone” that Apple appended to emails by default way back when. It was an ad, but nobody cared because using iPhone was a point of pride.

Even as a lifelong Apple user and longtime iPhone user, that sig irritated the shit out of me and was instantly disabled whenever I set up a new device. Also, and this may come as a shock to you and a number of other HN users: I never considered it a "point of pride." I switched because Android was a privacy dumpster fire comparatively and battery life was far better. I also can't remember a discussion in person with…

Now compare that to why people don’t want Claude in their commit messages or PR descriptions.

Clearly there’s no pride in using agentic coding (if anything, maybe it’s the opposite of pride..). I don’t think most developers want to publicize their use of agentic. But I could be wrong.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #182
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #163

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> I consider my prompts and prompting style to be trade secrets. No one wrote this with a straight face did they?

Yes? If I've developed a prompting style over the past four years that produces efficient and secure code bases with novel features, I consistently out-perform my colleagues using the same tools, and it is how I make money, then I don't see how it is not a trade secret.

Talking to customers is the most important thing, not sure prompting really matters at all, LLMs lack true novel creativity and cannot prioritize product features based on direct customer value.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by _pdp_ »

lawrjone wrote: post #98
_pdp_ wrote: post #4

I really hate this attribution nonsense ... On one hand I guess it is fine to automatically tag that the commit was AI-generated. On the other hand, this will happen even if you audit every line and add your own changes too, which means the attribution is misleading.

It’s not meant for saying “this change was done by Claude” it’s meant to connect commits back to the session. Makes it way easier to jump back into a follow up change between sessions as the agent can reload parts of the context. Anyone thinking this is about tagging AI generated changes and not just making the experience in Claude better is missing the point of the feature.

I get that. However, given that sessions are local and personal why tag it into the public source tree when it can keep a catalogue within the local session metadata with the exact branch, tags and refs. Sounds like easier less intrusive thing to do.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #182
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I consider my prompts and prompting style to be trade secrets. No one wrote this with a straight face did they?

Yes? If I've developed a prompting style over the past four years that produces efficient and secure code bases with novel features, I consistently out-perform my colleagues using the same tools, and it is how I make money, then I don't see how it is not a trade secret.

You haven't. This shit ain't rocket surgery, dude.

Re: Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Post by matheusmoreira »

klodolph wrote: post #21

I may be missing something, but this is exactly what I want as a default. I want the session links there. I see PRs from my coworkers with session links. I still get to control whether other people can see the session, but I don’t lose it. I don’t get the “unprofessional” argument. This is attribution. Attribution is professional. If you don’t want it, you turn it off or rewrite the commit messages. If you are having…

> This is attribution.

More like an ad for trillion dollar corporations. Not in the business of giving those out for free.

Attribution also helps people who want to judge others for using AI. Not even slightly interested in enabling any form of prejudice and stigma against myself. Even the markdown files that agents use don't go into my master branches anymore.

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