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Agree, that it is an ad. Also, unless the full session (in a resume-able format, along all session artifact such as intermediate research/docs used to produce the final output) is also included in the commit, the session id is useless.

I presume this is Anthropic trying to their "usage" stats before their IPO.

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Funny to compare it to “Sent from iPhone” that Apple appended to emails by default way back when.

It was an ad, but nobody cared because using iPhone was a point of pride.

So many people cared enough to complain, even in the comments here!

People cared. Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately as with every service that appends any of that nonsense.

> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately

I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms

Out of curiosity, do these Claude commit messages fall into the same category of "it's annoying but not worth the effort to turn it off"? If yes/no, why?

I cared. Deleting that constantly was pretty annoying. And why would I have pride in whatever device I’m using?

Most people's identities and self worth are tied up in the material things they buy rather than actual self actualization and personal axxomplishments.

It might be mostly with kids seeking status from materialism, but blue bubbles as opposed to green bubbles was/is still a thing.

Even as a lifelong Apple user and longtime iPhone user, that sig irritated the shit out of me and was instantly disabled whenever I set up a new device.

Also, and this may come as a shock to you and a number of other HN users: I never considered it a "point of pride." I switched because Android was a privacy dumpster fire comparatively and battery life was far better.

I also can't remember a discussion in person with folks where someone seemed "proud" to use an iPhone. If anything, the Android crowd loves to sneer at iPhone users and look down on them as idiots who need a "simpleton" phone.

I'm no simpleton. I ran custom roms and so on. Had F-droid installed, and so on. I do miss the customization, but I also look back and realize I wasted a massive amount of time on installing roms, backups, and the customizations themselves. Probably weeks of my life if not more. My iPhone? I don't. It's a phone. That runs apps. Do I wish I could install whatever I want, particularly given how secure apple's sandboxing is, and thus in theory how safe it should be? sure. but at the end of the day I want to live my life.

Now compare that to why people don’t want Claude in their commit messages or PR descriptions.

Clearly there’s no pride in using agentic coding (if anything, maybe it’s the opposite of pride..). I don’t think most developers want to publicize their use of agentic. But I could be wrong.

"Sent from iPhone" originally was (at least arguably) a "forgive mistakes, phone mail blows".

True. But it was also meant as a counter to “Sent from my Blackberry”.

Obama and a lot of execs were pretty addicted to their BB back in those days.

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