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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by gordonhart »

Svoka wrote: post #76

I am confused. Do AI agents reword your commits and force push or something? Last time I checked nobody was adding anything to my commits. Did I miss something?

Letting the model write your commits is the next step in vibe coding. I haven’t taken it yet either.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by gblargg »

deepsun wrote: post #12
ishan0102 wrote: post #9

I 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.

Perhaps it's good to know which one, like knowing what harmful ingredients are in your food so you can avoid ones you know are unsafe.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by 3form »

beshrkayali wrote: post #85

In the case of Claude or others, it is not just an advertisement, it's the weird shape the industry is spinning LLM-assisted-coding as a "co-author" relationship where it should be thought of more like a user-using-a-tool relationship. When you make a design with Photoshop or InDesign, it's not "co-designed by Photoshop", it's just a tool and you used the filters it provides. It is slightly weird that people accepted…

This is probably because the quality of a Photoshop or InDesign project is rather apparent. Not so with code, and hence a need to assign blame exists.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#104

Post by smeej »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #58
JeremyHerrman wrote: post #33

Is AI responsible for the committed code? Should AI be blamed when services go down due to the change? The answer is absolutely not - the developer is responsible whether the code was AI assisted or not, and the dev's name should be attached to it just like any change. The OP is right: these are ads, plain and simple, and it's a dark pattern for these companies to have attribution enabled by default

It's not the gun's responsibility when you shoot it but we still need to have discussion and rules about guns. Enough with this tired, worthless semantics argument.

And there is something useful about being able to trace the ballistics back to find out which gun was responsible for the shot, as a key to who was wielding it and is ultimately responsible for its use.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#105

Post by recursive »

jonnyasmar wrote: post #17
ishan0102 wrote: post #9

I 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.

Why put anything in commit messages at all? You can just figure it out by reading the diff.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by johnfn »

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #33

Is AI responsible for the committed code? Should AI be blamed when services go down due to the change? The answer is absolutely not - the developer is responsible whether the code was AI assisted or not, and the dev's name should be attached to it just like any change. The OP is right: these are ads, plain and simple, and it's a dark pattern for these companies to have attribution enabled by default

If a particular AI provider is responsible for a disproportionate amount of buggy code I absolutely want to know that. Perhaps we'll switch providers. Sure, this will be flagged in CR too, but I would want to see trends over time.

I don't know why you wouldn't want to track this information.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by dvh »

zetanor wrote: post #55

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I hate when people say their API supports iso8601 and when your api call fails they're like, oh I meant yyyy-mm-dd and EST timezone please.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by sodapopcan »

awesome_dude wrote: post #96
ok_dad wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A clanker isn’t a human it’s a tool. I don’t write “Coauthored by VSCode” when I use find and replace.

I know this is a bit off tangent - but can you please convey that point to every damned dev/team that ends up with a freaking ".vscode" directory in their repo

They don't know what a global git ignore is and if you tell them they don't care.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#110

Post by space_fountain »

andrewl-hn wrote: post #81

AI code is uncopyrightable. If you want to be hygienic about it you would let AI commit code as is, and if you don't like the code and decide to change it manually this should be a separate human-only commit. Mixed human-AI commits add ambiguity about copyrightability of that code. So its should be either: Author: Some AI model, Committer: You Friendly Dev or Author and Committer: Your Friendly Dev "Co-authored by AI…

I see this really confidently stated, but when I looked into it the exact line is very blurry. It is still possible that writing a prompt is enough creative input for copyright to be granted. What has been decided is you can't have your artwork copyrighted by the AI that produced it, but that isn't quite the same as AI writing not being copyrighted

https://sites.usc.edu/iptls/2025/02/04/ai-copyright-and-the-...

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