Another example of how AI is bad, bug fix for 20875

Indraj Gandham newsgroups at indraj.net
Tue Apr 7 17:34:03 UTC 2026


> The reason why you are getting this reaction is that you credited an LLM as a co-author on your commit. 

The commit has the following text:

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply at anthropic.com>

The US Copyright Office generally considers the output of LLMs to be 
ineligible for copyright protection; one can therefore make the argument 
that an LLM should not be considered a co-author and that this type of 
formal acknowledgement may not be a good idea.

However, it is probably not a big deal.

> I don't appreciate the rabble rousing on the forum by the way. I would have preferred a review comment on GitHub, or a new issue asking to improve the error message. I like working on open source, but it can be stressful for me when I feel like there's a large group of strangers watching me, eager to point out every way I'm doing things wrong.

There are many more people who do appreciate the time and effort you, 
DLF and others put in. If someone doesn't like something, they are free 
to make their own contributions instead of complaining in a manner that 
is both inappropriate and counterproductive.

Indraj


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