Should AI Be Listed as a Co-Author in Your Git Commits?

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The article discusses whether AI should be credited as a co-author in Git commits, sparking a debate about authorship and collaboration in the context of AI-assisted development.

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baobun

4 months ago

> We've all been there. You're stuck on a particularly difficult piece of code, and you turn to your AI assistant for help. Or you let AI agents write a partial feature. Whether it's GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT, these tools have become part of our daily workflow

No lol, don't believe the hype/gaslighting that agent usage is normalized to this extent.

zdp7

4 months ago

This touches on a issue I have been wondering about. What are the implications of not being able to copyright AI generated content? Can we use functions tagged with being AI generated legally? Are vibe coded apps public domain? What do we need to do, so we can enforce the license we choose when AI contributed.

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