yes because there's people who can't write but want to pretend that they can, just like the people who don't disclose they're using these tools. If you're the Gwyneth Paltrow of programming you're not making a great case for yourself, and I'd like to know before touching any of the software.

I don't know, am I? Why don't you check out my work and decide for yourself? Better than forming prejudiced opinions about others.

>Why don't you check out my work and decide for yourself?

because no person can read every line of code written in software they use, or track every commit made to a project. Integrity and authorship matters. If a person lies or obfuscates the origin of what they produce, an article, software, what have you they're doing it for a reason, otherwise they would be honest. That's not prejudice, that's recognizing deceit. And you don't eat fruit from a rotten tree.

> because no person can read every line of code written in software they use, or track every commit made to a project

Ask Claude to do it for you.

> they're doing it for a reason

And you concluded that the reason was they were pretenders who can't hack it.

That's your prejudice. Not interested in helping you categorize me, thanks.

That's fine; don't contribute to projects that ask for proper attribution, then, and I suppose everyone will be happy.

As I said, attribution is polite. If you're going to openly pre-judge and disrespect people on that basis though, the calculus changes.

Yes, and I respect ghostwritten work less than I do a work with a disclosed true author. Same would be true of unattributed AI-generated code.