Stop Advertising in Your Commits
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Stop Advertising in Your Commits
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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits
#2I 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.
Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits
#3Huh? It's not advertising, it's disclosure that the code was not fully (or at all) written by you.
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#4I don't know, it is a useful signal that the person did not think deeply about their code changes, and should be treated as such.
Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits
#5Huh? It's not advertising, it's disclosure that the code was not fully (or at all) written by you.
It’s both
Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits
#6I 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.
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#9I much prefer this over the alternative where people use AI to code without anyone knowing.
Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits
#10Huh? It's not advertising, it's disclosure that the code was not fully (or at all) written by you.
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.