AI

When Anthropic Decides On Your Behalf

Arnaud (Arhuman) ASSAD

That is the second time this morning. Once again, without a word, Claude Code co-signed my commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

When I point it out, it apologises flatly and does it again.

Yet I had written, in capitals, in my global CLAUDE.md:

NEVER append a Co-Authored by Claude in commit description

That is the file Claude Code loads in every session.

I say publicly that I use AI, but I answer for my code. With that line added, a client may wonder who is accountable for the code, a maintainer what “co-author” implies, when neither question should arise at all. Co-signing is not assisting, it is claiming authorship.

The Architect Who Never Laid a Brick...

Arnaud (Arhuman) ASSAD

…and How AI Made Him a Mason

My psychological profile is INTJ1, also known as the Architect, and I spent a good part of my life proving that this label fit… in the worst possible way.

Years of having a multitude of ideas

  • on analysis systems (Blockchain, Productivity)
  • on personal development methods (Memory, Discipline, Learning)
  • on algorithms (routing, metacompression, encryption)
  • on tools (format conversion, project management, system administration)

Years of producing hundreds of ideas in a row, for nothing, or worse, only to see some of them realized by others years later.

The Programmer's Extra Touch of Art

Arnaud (Arhuman) ASSAD

Faced with an AI capable of compiling our intentions into working programs, I ask myself: does our craft reduce to assembling syntax, or does it hide a dimension that is by nature beyond computation?

I was 17 when I finally got my hands on “The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth. At the time, in 1989, reference books on programming were rare and the 4 volumes of TAOCP had the status of a “bible”; it remains for me a reference work that every computer scientist should read.