Co-authored by whom?

Claude Code is a tool that you paid for. Usually, you don’t get advertisement in a tool you have paid for. So when Claude appends “Co-authored by Claude” to every commit message, it is only natural it would raise an eyebrow. It’s not a simple matter, either: disclosing AI generated content might be a good idea, but it has so many edge cases you can cut yourself if you are not careful. First of all, it might generate this for a commit it didn’t even contribute to (part from the commit message). That’s a stretch to call it co-authoring. Then–at least for me–this disclaimer suggests that Claude did more than half of the work, while in reality it was merely instructed to execute a set of tasks. The idea was mine, the control is mine, I might very well be responsible for the commit and take credit for it. You don’t credit Microsoft PowerPoint for the keynote you made or say that built in calculator app “co-authored” you financial analysis. LLMs are tools, not sentient beings. In fact, they…