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Re:Using Git to attribute AI-generated code by reena_signalhq on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:23PM (#46639546)
This is a smart approach to the AI attribution problem. As more code is AI-generated, tracking provenance becomes critical for debugging and compliance.

One question: How do you handle cases where AI-generated code is heavily edited by humans? Does it still count as "AI-generated" or does it become "human-written"?

Also curious about performance impact - does adding this metadata to every commit slow down large repos?

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Re:Using Git to attribute AI-generated code by OliverGilan on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:43PM (#46639766)
Maintainer here.

In the case where a human edits a previously AI-generated line we simply track that as a human-produced line of code. We are thinking of making this a distinct subcategory because there's a lot of useful info in that data.

Regarding performance we haven't done rigorous benchmarks but we've been using this internally and haven't noticed any problems

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