I 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.

Huh? It's not advertising, it's disclosure that the code was not fully (or at all) written by you.

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 just plausible deniability.

I much prefer this over the alternative where people use AI to code without anyone knowing.

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I want to know when things are slop or not. At least programmers are willing to admit they're generating slop, unlike social media and blog posts.

Also, if I publish something online, you don't get to tell me what I can and can't put there (except for reasonable exemptions for hate speech and such, of course). If you don't like repos that tag their slop, go read someone else's code. Feel free to write a filter in your adblocker for the dozen AI tools you usually find.