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Re:Stop Advertising in Your Commits by nikhilpareek13 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:26PM (#48284730)
if disclosure is the goal, git already has the Co-Authored-By trailer convention for this. I add it manually when I want to flag that an AI was meaningfully involved in a commit, and it shows up properly in Github's UI as a co-author. The claude and cursor footers being default-on rather than opt-in is what makes them feel more advertising than disclosure to me.
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Re:Stop Advertising in Your Commits by mcpherrinm on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:29PM (#48284784)
The post seems to be down so I am not quite sure what it says, but Co-Authored-By trailer is what Claude does. I'm not quite clear what you're suggested that's different from what Claude does - just default to off instead of default on?

> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>

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Re:Stop Advertising in Your Commits by shepherdjerred on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:54PM (#48285820)
The post is suggesting to use a trailer.

> "Assisted by blabot", "co-authored-by: slopgpt", "sent from my fartphone"

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Re:Stop Advertising in Your Commits by SoftTalker on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:42PM (#48284954)
Is it more than advertising even, and setting the stage for future claims of ownership by Anthropic (or whichever AI company)?
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