So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
@aral Honestly I don't actually hate this.
It's a tool. The _user_ is responsible for what they're submitting. It's putting code generated by them in their name. I think this is actually good.
@glyph Yeah, I disagree. Code isn't ingredients and it's not “contamination" any more than you should label “I used search and replace on this”
What you want to know is whether it was well engineered or not.
And in fact, this is almost entirely orthogonal to "safety”. This is an engineering product. The safety comes from processes and whether or not _anyone checked the work done was right_, not the inputs.
@rfleschenberg If that's their concern, they should be making those certifications.
That said, are they checking on the legal issues, or are they just ...vibing?
(Legal concerns are also things where _we can check_. Though the answer is going to be annoyingly ambiguous right now. But supposing about the law is a thing programmers really need to stop doing.)
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