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ripbozotoday at 6:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don't understand the part about undercover mode. How is this different from disabling claude attribution in commits (and optionally telling claude to act human?)

On that note, this article is also pretty obviously AI-generated and it's unfortunate the author didn't clean it up.


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giancarlostorotoday at 6:47 PM

It's people overreacting, the purpose of it is simple, don't leak any codenames, project names, file names, etc when touching external / public facing code that you are maintaining using bleeding edge versions of Claude Code. It does read weird in that they want it to write as if a developer wrote a commit, but it might be to avoid it outputting debug information in a commit message.

ramon156today at 7:02 PM

Even some of these comments are obviously Ai-assisted. I hate that I recognize it.