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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by Tomte »

epistasis wrote: post #44

I have to ask Claude to stop doing this about every two days, and usually I don't see it until after a push to a remote repo. So annoying. Just stop, Anthropic, please. And pay attention to the request to stop, instead of silently turning it back on again all the time. Latest thing was linking to the Claude session that generated some of the PR. Put in somewhere that a commit had LLM assistance, fine, but don't spam…

You don‘t ask, you configure it: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-setting...

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by neilv »

cautiouscat wrote: post #54
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree at all. I think it was a dark pattern when attribution was not enabled by default and angrily demanded it from everyone who sent me AI-generated code. It's not OK to declare sole authorship of something that you did not in fact author simply because you're volunteering to take responsibility for it.

The dark pattern was adding the name of the product. An acceptable pattern would be “Written with the help of an LLM”.

I disagree. Imagine a human co-author on a work. "Written with a co-author" would not be sufficient attribution.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by elpocko »

john_strinlai wrote: post #26
jonnyasmar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who really cares, though? AI is just a tool. If the code is good, the code is good.

> Who really cares, though? some people certainly do, to the extent of not caring at all about the outcome, only being concerned with the fact that the process was 'tainted' by ai. the fervor for/against ai can approach the level of religion for some people.

Imagine using software tools on a computer to make a computer do work without telling anybody that you used software tools on a computer to make the computer do the work. That's just disgusting. Matrix multiplication was invented by the devil.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by bluGill »

conradludgate wrote: post #43
aleda145 wrote: post #4

I 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.

It's a signal, and probably a high success signal in open source slop discovery, but it's more of a correlation than a causation. I've seen lots of changes that bear the co-authored tag that have had a lot of thought behind the code changes.

You are responsible, it doesn't matter if a LLM wrote it. Sometimes someone will touch my code and I got wish git blame still had my name. (That is they fixed the spelling of some variables - I'm a bad speller but know the codes are better)

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

cautiouscat wrote: post #54
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree at all. I think it was a dark pattern when attribution was not enabled by default and angrily demanded it from everyone who sent me AI-generated code. It's not OK to declare sole authorship of something that you did not in fact author simply because you're volunteering to take responsibility for it.

The dark pattern was adding the name of the product. An acceptable pattern would be “Written with the help of an LLM”.

I get the opposition to product names, but as someone who's trying hard to make an OpenAI boycott work, I personally value being told which LLM in particular is responsible.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by pavon »

pkamb wrote: post #11

Sent from my iPhone

Not the same. What email client you chose doesn't fundamentally change how you wrote the email, or require any additional context that people reading the email should keep in mind. AI codegen does. It should be disclosed, and co-authored-by is good convention for doing so.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by StableAlkyne »

john_strinlai wrote: post #26
jonnyasmar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who really cares, though? AI is just a tool. If the code is good, the code is good.

> Who really cares, though? some people certainly do, to the extent of not caring at all about the outcome, only being concerned with the fact that the process was 'tainted' by ai. the fervor for/against ai can approach the level of religion for some people.

I can at least see where those people are coming from

AI can be a phenomenal tool for development when used correctly...

... But there is also now a trend on GitHub of low to no-skill individuals going around spamming garbage work in order to play the numbers game for their resume. When asked why they did something or to change it, they just act as a middleman for the robot and show no understanding or initiative.

So I can understand how it's become a turnoff for some people. I used to think it was a dumb rule until a project I work on started being spammed with said junk PRs

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by [deleted] »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #53
jonnyasmar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who really cares, though? AI is just a tool. If the code is good, the code is good.

I don't agree. The process that produced the code is an essential part of code review. I frequently run into hacks that I'll approve if, and only if, I trust that some competent human being has explored the alternatives and judged they're the best way forward.

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