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.
Which for my repositories means I want ~95% less of it in my commit history. I'm prepared to round up for simplicity. But to each their own.
co-authorship implies ability to hold author rights, which afaik an algorithm can't do.
are folks adding speakeasy/stainless co-authorship lines to their commits? should i add alembic as a co-author after making some changes to the database schema?
Co-authored-by: buf generate <noreply@github.com>If someone remembers what it was actually, that would really bring back memories
I personally disagree and think commit messages makes the most sense. But I also think it's up to the personal preference of whoever owns the repository.
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.
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
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.
> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
[1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d18b8f3238abdb2cd878...
If Git commits formally had a co-authored header, it would go there. As it stands, there is one author and one committer. If something was pair programmed, whether with a human or machine, you need a commit message trailer if you want to show that. Commit message trailers are a formal mechanism in git, supported by tooling; there are git commands to add and remove them.
Totally agree about "sent from my fartphone", of course.
Disclosing things in the pull request is not enough; pull requests get lost in the sands of time. Years down the road, all that some downstream consumer has is the git history, not any CI-related metadata.
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
But of course, owning an iPhone early on was seen as prestigious. Using an LLM is... not? Many people really don't want the world to know. For blogs in particular, the urge to have an LLM generate the entire thing and then post it under your name seems to be really difficult to resist.
“Co-authored by Copilot” gives a multi billion dollar corp free advertising. I don’t care about them. I do care about Joe though.
You have to let people know where your ideas are supported, or even come from.
To do anything else is plagiarism.
AI isn't a co-contributer - but it should be referenced - just like a link to a Stack Overflow comment when that's the source of code.
Having AI referenced in the commit is (IMO) best practice - but only co-contributer attributes are available (for now)
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 everybody please, ESPECIALLY in all the icons all over the GitHub interface. Sheesh.
It's already obvious that it's coming from an LLM because it's been overdocumented with excessive prose, and the code is overly verbose.
It's very useful if it says AI/LLM was used, then I know that there may not actually be a reason for the choice in the commit, so per Chesterton's fence I can then tear down that fence.
Now, do I need to know which brand of LLM? No. And fair enough, I'll stop being specific.
commit 85cd835e5923cddc1882e74354eac8dba6a925c1 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: John
AuthorDate: Fri May 22 13:25:33 2026 -0000
Merged PR #197
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I think this is very poor advice. Knowing who/what changed the code is often crucial for understanding why it changed.
Last time I checked nobody was adding anything to my commits. Did I miss something?
teaearlgraycold•55m ago
bpodgursky•53m ago
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.
teaearlgraycold•45m ago
nextaccountic•18m ago
they know things like your git author line, your github handle, and the exact codebase you were working on
the general shape of commits
even if you change extensively, they will probably be able to match this with claude code sessions
sure the atribution at the end of commits is a signal, but I doubt it's much valuable
if anything it's more valuable to anthropic competitors, that don't have claude code session data to match to open source contributors, and will have to guess if any given code is AI generated, and by how much