People cared. Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately as with every service that appends any of that nonsense.

I cared. Deleting that constantly was pretty annoying. And why would I have pride in whatever device I’m using?

So many people cared enough to complain, even in the comments here!

"Sent from iPhone" originally was (at least arguably) a "forgive mistakes, phone mail blows".

Even as a lifelong Apple user and longtime iPhone user, that sig irritated the shit out of me and was instantly disabled whenever I set up a new device.

Also, and this may come as a shock to you and a number of other HN users: I never considered it a "point of pride." I switched because Android was a privacy dumpster fire comparatively and battery life was far better.

I also can't remember a discussion in person with folks where someone seemed "proud" to use an iPhone. If anything, the Android crowd loves to sneer at iPhone users and look down on them as idiots who need a "simpleton" phone.

I'm no simpleton. I ran custom roms and so on. Had F-droid installed, and so on. I do miss the customization, but I also look back and realize I wasted a massive amount of time on installing roms, backups, and the customizations themselves. Probably weeks of my life if not more. My iPhone? I don't. It's a phone. That runs apps. Do I wish I could install whatever I want, particularly given how secure apple's sandboxing is, and thus in theory how safe it should be? sure. but at the end of the day I want to live my life.

If I put a link to the Jira ticket the commit fixes, is that an ad for Atlassian?

The part after "https://claude.ai/" is a UID, that's useful to have to tie together multiple possibly unrelated commits and changes authored in a given session.

For me, no. I’ve started tracking session ID on every ticket I work on in order to be able to find them again.

Having it in the commit message is handy (not to mentioned I already have it I. The commit message).

UID itself is what is useful, regardless of whether or not you have access to the actual session transcript.

One could argue that "https://claude.ai/<uid>" is slightly more verbose over "CLAUDE_UID=<uid>", but the former is also slightly more convenient for those with access to the transcript, and both have word "claude" in them, because you need to be able to tell which UID in the commit message is for what.

There has been more than I project where I literally didn’t even look at the code.

I prompted what amounts to verbose “I want X” and then did QA. I’m perfectly happy with an LLM being credited with that code and there being no copyright existing for that code.

For some people that is their life’s work and they want to clutch pearls. Their sole contribution was a half baked idea and they shipped QA out to their “users” but they want to be credited with any rights.

There is definitely a continuum in LLM usage for code, do I agree with an AI blindly stamping every commit, not really.

Do I see LLM generated code as equivalent to me digging a hole with a shovel, it depends. Sometimes there was very little shovelling, other times there was no me involved and you may as well credit the entire hole to the shovel.

Where this will come in is when it comes to copyright and licensing.

If your entire product is LLM generated you sure as hell have no right to place any license on there other than potentially a MIT equivalent license, even that is dubious though but from an organisational standpoint MIT probably will be more widely accepted than saying it is uncopyrightable.

My argument being I would rather know that you didn’t even look at the code, which is what this will achieve, whether I agree with it or not at the very least it will make it easier to sift through the garbage.

I’ll start working on the impl, you get the VC funding. I’m sure there is a Balmer peak joke in here.

I want that under every message I send from my phone!!