Developer criticizes promotional AI tool credits in git commits
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Summary
A developer rants about the growing trend of adding promotional messages (like "Assisted by [AI tool]" or "Co-authored-by: [AI bot]") to git commits in open-source projects. The author argues that these messages are essentially free advertisements for companies that don't pay contributors, and that commit messages should remain technical and free of such promotional content. The post calls for disclosing AI tool usage in merge requests instead of cluttering commit history with ads.
Key quotes
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"Assisted by blabot", "co-authored-by: slopgpt", "sent from my fartphone"
It's a fucking ad. I bet you use ad blockers, yet you add ads to your commits.
Disclose your "AI" tools in a merge request if needed but leave them out of the damn commits, those are for te
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