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Comment by shevy-java

6 hours ago

But why should AI then be attributed if it is merely a tool that is used?

Having an honesty based tag could be only way to monitor impact or get after a fix in code bases if things go south.

That is at the moment: - Nobody knows for sure what agents might add and their long term effects on codebases.

- It's at best unclear that AI content in a codebase can be reliably determined automatically.

- Even if it's not malicious, at least some of its contributions are likely to be deleterious and pass undetected by human review.

This is a good point but I'd take it in the opposite direction from the implication, we should document which tools were used in general, it'd be a neat indicator of what people use.

it makes sense to keep track of what model wrote what code to look for patterns, behaviors, etc.

It isn't?

> AI agents MUST NOT add Signed-off-by tags. Only humans can legally certify the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO).

They mention an Assisted-by tag, but that also contains stuff like "clang-tidy". Surely you're not interpreting that as people "attributing" the work to the linter?