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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- dreamrealhttps://bytecode.news/posts/2026/07/identifying-the-actors-what-a-byline-actually-certifies
- dreamrealIf you're on hacker news, I'd appreciate an upvote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082489
- nevetIdentifying the Actors: What a Byline Certifies | Hacker News
- dreamreal(I think the article's written well, but it ain't short.)
- GreenResponsepersonally I kill AI with fire wherever I find it. Good thing Firefox has a killswitch for that
- GreenResponseI hate this AI hype
- dreamrealThat's dumb and impossible
- dreamrealbut I get it
- GreenResponsebut I realise that it’s a godsend for technical people that have problems with articulating their thoughts, pretty much most of the people
- dreamrealyou're in good company: you're doing the same thing headius did
- Paradreamreal: fwiw I recommend using Co-Authored-By trailers in commits with some pseudoidentity for LLMs et al. This pairs well with "commit in small pieces, commit often". Of course it's still a human process and most don't even really know how to add commit message trailers but I don't see any better way of doing it at this point beyond some completely hands-off commit authoring process with a
- Paraseparate diff-by-diff signing process.
- dreamreali don't see the point
- dreamrealI mean, I do, but really... why
- ParaRequirements are in flux, my previous project where my involvement just ended had a LLM authoring policy change where they do want people to clearly highlight which content came from where and I'm happy I don't have to solve that there :)
- ParaThe trailers is a nifty and underutilized feature IMHO in general, although they're more useful for the reviewed-by and other such metadata which they usually are used to.
- dreamrealI guess I understand the need for provenance, but even so: what does it DO?
- ParaIt's a good lightweight solution to red tape.
- dreamrealif the code works - like, tested, the verification is present - then why does it matter?
- dreamreal"oh no, that line came from qwen, THAT one from gemma4, THAT one from... oh, it's from Sam, ew."
- ParaFingerpointing/blame, I'd imagine.
- ParaHow dare you make mistakes etc.
- * dreamreal is so overjoyed at being reminded that people are stupid
- dreamrealI can't wait until the world realizes that I KNOW THIS ALREADY, being stupid myself, and don't need further reminding
- ParaOr Totally Accurate Stats such as "70% of bugs involved ChatGPT"
- ParaOr Even More Relevant Stats such as "55% of production critical bugs were reviewed by John Random, fire him!"
- ParaTBH while I'm the kind of metadata fan who likes this stuff but I can see lots of abuse potential for all these, but alas...
- dreamreali don't mind the metadata, I guess, I just don't see how it's actually useful
- dreamrealit can be interesting
- dreamrealbut to me the metric is "does the code effin' WORK" and "do we know why we can make that assertion"
- ParaOn that I'd rather use the metadata for adding e.g. CI process marking commits as Tested-By or somesuch.
- ParaLike, since it's possible, why the hell not.
- ParaOf course this means hand-over and history rewriting which will make the human part harder.
- dreamrealWell, tested-by still relies on HITL, because the specs don't necessarily factor in properly
- ParaIt's better suited for manual testing, sure.
- ParaAnd in a sense that makes sense even. But then one needs to teach the manual testers how to do it or build a "click here to mark this tested" minitool or whatever...
- ParaAll doable, and kinda very interesting, but still...yeah I don't know what the point would be :)
- dreamrealEw, not THAT kind of manual testing
- dreamrealI mean, that's good, QA people are worth their weight in gold, but ... ew
- Parahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMRgdpXLElE
- nevetYouTube: look at this graph | Gappy
- hassoon'evening
- dreamrealhi