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by hperrin 80 days ago
The commit log is filled with AI generated commits. I wouldn’t trust that on my server.
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I want to know why this [0] needed to be co-authored by Claude. Especially because it seems like the kind of change you'd explicitly want to make without Claude's "help" (presuming that's how that got in there).

[0] https://github.com/smgdkngt/dobase/commit/597684fc67b67f5a2a...

Asking Claude to commit and push triggers the Co-Authored-By thing typically, even if the change was made by hand. It could entirely be possible the author just asked it to generate a commit message for this change (although the style doesn't strike me as very Claude like).
I use Claude to help me code. I'm a solo developer and this is a side project, AI helps me move faster on things I'd otherwise not get to. The code is all reviewed and tested by me before it ships. I understand the skepticism though.
That’s all well and good, but you can’t enforce a license on it. Code written by an AI is in the public domain. So the license you’re using is essentially meaningless, and anyone can do anything they want with the code.
Blocking AI users on github is such a quick way to avoid most slop and get advanced notice when an existing project has started going into tech/cognitive debt.

You'll get a warning banner for those repos if you go to these users and block them:

- github.com/claude

- github.com/cursoragent

- github.com/gemini-code-assist

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Example of the warning banner and more discussion here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116115453811522063