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it absolutely is advertising, you can even call it a growth hack if you want to feel good about it co-authorship implies ability to hold author rights, which a

it absolutely is advertising, you can even call it a growth hack if you want to feel good about it co-authorship implies ability to hold author rights, which afaik an algorithm can't do. are folks adding speakeasy/stainless co-authorship lines to their commits? should i add alembic as a co-author after making some changes to the database schema? Co-authored-by: buf generate <noreply@github.com>

cobbal 5mo ago
If co-authorship implies holding rights, then what gives the "primary author" who just prompted for the code the right to add their own name?
- 0123456789ABCDE 5mo ago
  the fact they authored the code? assume no deep learning, of any kind is involved: you write a program, you are the author, right? you compile the code, are you still the author? do you have to attribute co-authorship to gcc/llvm/oracle? i think not, you are still the author, same as when anyone else uses an llm to write code. ianal
kuschku 5mo ago
That's exactly what you're supposed to do - if a tool generated the code in a commit, you should be using a commit trailer for that. Whether that's uniffi, an rpc preprocessor, dependabot or renovate, or some AI tool.
- Conan_Kudo 5mo ago
  There's a Generated-by trailer for that sort of thing.
- 0123456789ABCDE 5mo ago
  > That's exactly what you're supposed to do this does not seem to match reality, see: 1. count for claude as co-author: 25M 2. count for speakeasy as co-author: 917 3. count for stainless as co-author: 6.2k 4. count for alembic as co-author: *Your search did not match any commits* ex. search: https://github.com/search?q=%22Co-Authored-By%3A+Claude%22+%22%3Cnoreply%40anthropic.com%3E%22&type=commits https://github.com/search?q=%22Co-Authored-By%3A+Claude%22+%...
  - kuschku 5mo ago
    As the sibling notes, that would usually be marked as Generated-By or Generator or similar tags. Claude is only using "Co-Authored-By" for the same reason that Anthropic is calling claude "he", not "it": to anthropomorphize the machine in the public's perception.

cobbal 5mo ago

If co-authorship implies holding rights, then what gives the "primary author" who just prompted for the code the right to add their own name?

0123456789ABCDE 5mo ago
the fact they authored the code? assume no deep learning, of any kind is involved: you write a program, you are the author, right? you compile the code, are you still the author? do you have to attribute co-authorship to gcc/llvm/oracle? i think not, you are still the author, same as when anyone else uses an llm to write code. ianal

kuschku 5mo ago

That's exactly what you're supposed to do - if a tool generated the code in a commit, you should be using a commit trailer for that. Whether that's uniffi, an rpc preprocessor, dependabot or renovate, or some AI tool.

Conan_Kudo 5mo ago
There's a Generated-by trailer for that sort of thing.
0123456789ABCDE 5mo ago
> That's exactly what you're supposed to do this does not seem to match reality, see: 1. count for claude as co-author: 25M 2. count for speakeasy as co-author: 917 3. count for stainless as co-author: 6.2k 4. count for alembic as co-author: *Your search did not match any commits* ex. search: https://github.com/search?q=%22Co-Authored-By%3A+Claude%22+%22%3Cnoreply%40anthropic.com%3E%22&type=commits https://github.com/search?q=%22Co-Authored-By%3A+Claude%22+%...
- kuschku 5mo ago
  As the sibling notes, that would usually be marked as Generated-By or Generator or similar tags. Claude is only using "Co-Authored-By" for the same reason that Anthropic is calling claude "he", not "it": to anthropomorphize the machine in the public's perception.