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by re-thc 103 days ago
> What he claimed, and what was interesting, was that Claude didn't look at the code

Who opened the PR? Who co-authored the commits? It's clearly on Github.

> Blanchard was a chardet maintainer for years. Of course he had looked at its code!

So there you have it. If he looked, he co-authored then there's that.
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kjksf 103 days ago
If I put my signature on Picasso painting, it doesn't make me co-author of said painting.

Blanchard is very clear that he didn't write a single line of code. He isn't an author, he isn't a co-author.

Signing GitHub commit doesn't change that.

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re-thc 103 days ago
> Blanchard is very clear that he didn't write a single line of code

He used Claude to write it. Difference? The fact that I write on the notepad vs printed it out = I didn't do it?

> Signing GitHub commit doesn't change that.

That's the equivalent of me saying I didn't kill anyone. The fingerprints on the knife doesn't change that.

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satvikpendem 103 days ago
I'll take a commit authored by someone else and then git amend the author to myself, did I write that commit then? By your logic I did apparently.
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re-thc 103 days ago
> I'll take a commit authored by someone else and then git amend the author to myself, did I write that commit then

I did say co-author didn't I? Even if you added 0.000000001% to something you did so technically, yes.

> By your logic I did apparently

If you take someone's email and forward it did you write that email? Instead of debating that imagine you took a trojan email and forwarded it to someone and they opened it - do you think you'd be held up in any way?

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