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No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto
Key takeaways
- A commit-msg hook and Git Hub Action that rejects commits carrying AI attribution trailers — because the byline is the one place accountability can t be shared.
- AI co-author git-commit bylines are an impressive marketing hook — but they provide no useful signal of provenance.
- All code written is facilitated by a host of sophisticated tools.
A commit-msg hook and Git Hub Action that rejects commits carrying AI attribution trailers — because the byline is the one place accountability can t be shared.
AI co-author git-commit bylines are an impressive marketing hook — but they provide no useful signal of provenance.
It is mid-2026. All code written is facilitated by a host of sophisticated tools. The most recent of these are AI co-authors. These have incredible utility, but — as with the other tools in the development toolchain — they are not meaningfully accountable for their output.
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