No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto

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Post by zethraeus » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto
no-ai-coauthors.dev

Re: No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto

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Post by zethraeus » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

AI Co-authors are impressive marketing, but deleterious to dev work.

This manifesto website includes a git commit-msg hook for your favorite hook manager, and a GitHub Action for preventing contributions containing them from landing in your project.

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Post by Lancetnik » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC

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Post by blinkbat » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

Broken on mobile

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Post by vindin » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

Broken on mobile, and clearly written by an AI co-author.

This sounds like Claude from a mile away

“It strikes the tool. It keeps the person. Matching runs on both the display name and the email, normalized — so a renamed bot or a numeric noreply address doesn’t slip through. A human is never in the blast radius.”

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Post by mrlowlevel » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

Ironic this website has AI written all over it.

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Post by wongarsu » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

The manifesto is somehow devoid of coherent arguments. You are still personally listed as the author of your commits, adding a co-author is not a mechanism for moving all accountability to that co-author. That's not what a co-author is.

I suspect the author of the website forgot to include in their prompt why they actually dislike AI Co-Author attributions. Or maybe they just have really bad colleagues

And that's while there are plenty of good reasons not to list the AI as co-author. I stopped letting Claude include it

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Post by gmziven » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

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Post by zethraeus » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

mrlowlevel wrote: post #6

Ironic this website has AI written all over it.

I'm the author ('author'?), and I'll push back: it's solidly non-ironic!

Here's a link from the bottom of the page. https://no-ai-coauthors.dev/making-of.html

Re: No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto

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Post by zethraeus » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

vindin wrote: post #5

Broken on mobile, and clearly written by an AI co-author. This sounds like Claude from a mile away “It strikes the tool. It keeps the person. Matching runs on both the display name and the email, normalized — so a renamed bot or a numeric noreply address doesn’t slip through. A human is never in the blast radius.”

Thanks for the mobile heads up!

The manifesto is me. The website is not — and I'd like to argue that's very non-ironic!

Here's the making of, linked at the bottom. https://no-ai-coauthors.dev/making-of.html