[mexicocitinluez]

If it's decent code, but attributed to AI, how does that change things? What real-world impacts does that have?

That's what I can't for the life of me figure out. Bad code is bad code regardless of who is writing it. Adding a disclaimer about how it was written is meaningless. Hell, it could say "Written by the Easter bunny" and that would have 0 impact on it's utility.

[agentultra]

Not the commenter you replied to:

I think many people in this camp have political or ethical concerns and want to avoid contributing to or supporting the companies behind frontier-AI tools. Or they have moral or technical concerns and want to boycott usage to maintain their principles.

It should be fairly widely known at this point.

[mexicocitinluez]

Obviously people have those concerns. The comment above specifically said:

> The value of the Claude attribution is that you can tell at a glance who used AI.

Specifies none of that, which is why I was asking the question.

> technical concerns

Which is exactly why I asked what I did. What technical concerns could possibly exist if the code is good? What does adding that attribution remove or add to technical concerns that you can't already see from the code itself?

[agentultra]

Maybe you want to resist normalizing the use of GenAI for programming?

I know my personal choice doesn’t make much of a difference but I refuse to own a car. I advocate at my local city council to remove car storage from streets, remove parking minimums, add better transit, make the core of our city car-free. It sometimes feels easier to join in and just accept that this is the way of the world but I refuse to believe in inevitability: building cities for the benefit of cars is a choice.

Maybe some folks want to avoid AI code because they don’t want to make that choice?

I can’t say for them. But I do know there’s no sense pretending like they don’t have a point or feigning shock that someone might not have the same view as you do.

[mexicocitinluez]

Are you intentionally misreading my comments?

I asked a simple question: What technical concerns could possibly exist if the code is good?

I made it very clear I wasn't talking about personal, political, or ethical arguments.

> But I do know there’s no sense pretending like they don’t have a point or feigning shock that someone might not have the same view as you do.

Where am I feigning shock? Are you reading the right comment thread before you're replying?

[agentultra]

> That's what I can't for the life of me figure out. Bad code is bad code regardless of who is writing it. Adding a disclaimer about how it was written is meaningless.

Maybe I was reading too much into this part of your comment.

Plenty of folks don’t separate the ethical, political, or moral from the technology. For them using it is condoning it. Like for me, owning a car is contributing to car culture. It might be inconvenient for me or seem backwards to others but it’s worth resisting. They want to know that something was written with AI so they can avoid supporting AI or condoning its use.

[mexicocitinluez]

That's fair. I guess at that point I think adding a label to the repo as opposed to the commit would make more sense to me.