No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto

10 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by zethraeus

14 Comments

wongarsu

11 hours ago

The manifesto is somehow devoid of coherent arguments. You are still personally listed as the author of your commits, adding a co-author is not a mechanism for moving all accountability to that co-author. That's not what a co-author is.

I suspect the author of the website forgot to include in their prompt why they actually dislike AI Co-Author attributions. Or maybe they just have really bad colleagues

And that's while there are plenty of good reasons not to list the AI as co-author. I stopped letting Claude include it

zethraeus

10 hours ago

Funny story: I made this because despite having the global no-attribution setting turned on, Claude still regularly tags itself.

I'm sure it's a context thing — but boy is it annoying.

captn3m0

an hour ago

When I read the title, I thought it would be for research papers.

vindin

11 hours ago

Broken on mobile, and clearly written by an AI co-author.

This sounds like Claude from a mile away

“It strikes the tool. It keeps the person. Matching runs on both the display name and the email, normalized — so a renamed bot or a numeric noreply address doesn’t slip through. A human is never in the blast radius.”

zethraeus

10 hours ago

Thanks for the mobile heads up!

The manifesto is me. The website is not — and I'd like to argue that's very non-ironic!

Here's the making of, linked at the bottom. https://no-ai-coauthors.dev/making-of.html

mrcslws

9 hours ago

I can confirm, this is how Adam talks.

brazukadev

7 hours ago

it is actually very ironic. You can manually commit your code to easily hide you had a co-author.

zethraeus

11 hours ago

AI Co-authors are impressive marketing, but deleterious to dev work.

This manifesto website includes a git commit-msg hook for your favorite hook manager, and a GitHub Action for preventing contributions containing them from landing in your project.

josefritzishere

9 hours ago

AI can't be accountable therefore AI cannot be the author.