@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
2026-07-23 06:14 UTC
One thing that really makes me sad when the first line of a repo’s readme has “with help from Claude” is the apparent diligence with “giving credit” to a nonexistent person, as if Anthropic doesn’t have immense disdain and ingratitude for the struggles and meaning of the work they ate.
On top of that, it’s voluntary and free advertising. It’s like going out of your way to put “Made with the help of Microsoft 365” in the header of your documents. I cannot take someone like this seriously, but it crushes my soul all the same.
Replies (4)
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-07-23 06:47
@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space Made with disdain.
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@ehurtley@pdx.social 2026-07-23 07:11
@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space I don’t see it as “giving credit”, I see it as a warning.
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@ahnlak@kavlak.uk 2026-07-23 10:38
@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space @etchedpixels@mastodon.social I think it's more disclosure than credit. God help you if you used AI (to whatever extent) and *didn't* explicitly say so up front. Nobody (ok, not many people) are going to go postal over the fact that you used MS Office to write a document.
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@bryan@dusty.ninja 2026-07-23 12:39
@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space This is why I just leave an AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md file in my repo. Then I don’t need to thank a fancy autocomplete engine. Sent from my iPhone