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I don't disagree with you. I too hate disclosing LLM usage. I hate giving free advertising to trillion dollar corporations. There's also the fact people will probably look down on me for it and assume I'm incompetent because I used an LLM, and I've actually ended up sitting on reviewed and tested patches to open source projects because of this.

However, we should be polite and respect their house rules. They are being reasonable and even made an effort to preempt these exact objections:

> Harassment is not allowed.

> You may not harass people for using an LLM, regardless of whether or not their use is banned by the policy.

> Don’t try to be the police for whether someone has used an LLM. You are not required to “actively look” for whether an LLM was involved.

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> There's also the fact people will probably look down on me for it and assume I'm incompetent because I used an LLM

I've seen so many arguments (mainly from non-developers) claiming that anyone who uses an llm to generate code doesn't know how to program. They can't understand the difference between people using an LLM to blindly churn out code, and people developing with an LLM to generate the boring bits

The drama around LLM use in game decompiling and other related hacking is very funny. I've seen "well maybe you should learn C++ instead of being lazy and vibecoding" a nonneligible number of times.

I have a decompilation project for Mega Man Battle Network 2... Claude decompiles it, and then we go over the code together line by line until I understand it, then I commit the commented assembly code and my hand written documentation to the repository.

Yet another thing I won't be able to publish I guess. Sigh.

Disclosure can't go away, i dont care if you say which model you used. But i think it's within any project rights to not accept any llm assisted contributions.

The disclosure is fine, it's this stigma surrounding LLMs that is a problem.

We'll yet see where the wind blows, but there's a real possibility of copyright issues for machine-generated code down the line.

> I hate giving free advertising to trillion dollar corporations.

Are you required to tell you used Anthropic™ (or whichever your AI provider of the month is) to generate this code, and not only that *an LLM* was involved?

A project I wanted to contribute to requried git trailers in the commit message.

  Generated-by: Claude Fable 5

Strengths and weaknesses of different models are helpful to know. And the model could be important later for legal reasons.