also if i see one more "Co-Authored-by: Claude" trailer i am going to spontaneously combust

i am of the opinion that co-authored-by is strictly for people and LLMs are certainly not people

i of course understand why Anthropic is doing this: this is PR for them (public relations not pull request). this is their way to quantify claude usage in major public projects. and also a way to show off: look how cool we are, our tool is so cool it's making open source contributions!

but for me it's a red flag that you're the kind of user who is so lazy to think you're not overriding that part of the prompt with something more reasonable like the commonly-proposed Assisted-by trailer (see: Fedora policy, post by xeiaso.net and probably more). you're giving up control and letting a random word generator take charge. you cannot accept responsibility for the actions of your model, because you didn't even slap your own name on it, you let fucking claude pretend it did the work. because guess what: that thing doesn't think no matter how much anthropic's papers want to delude you. it cannot think, it cannot feel, it is a machine and a machine should not be allowed to make decisions because a computer can never be held accountable.