Co-author is so strange. Like, would anyone credit an IDE or even a script generating code as co-author? Even legally, tools don't have the ontological requirement to be credited as author.

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bpev 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty sure it's just because if the tool generates the commit, it auto-adds itself as co-author. Like the iPhone emails that say "sent from iPhone"

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wildzzz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I always tell Claude to turn that off. It looks incredibly tacky. I'll leave an agents.md file in the repo if I don't care about people knowing AI helped me.

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ClimaxGravely 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Waiting for the day I get an email from someone that says "co-authored by my iphone"

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psychoslave 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, but the equivalent of "sent from Invasive·marketing·of·some·MUA™" would be "generated with Ludicrious·Laughable·Mockery™".

That is, the MUAs don’t add "co-authored by myMUA".

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		"Sent from my iPhone"

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jamietanna 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There are many reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164481