Joey Hess: banning all Anthropic employees
Planet Debian [Unofficial]
April 1, 2026
Per my policies, I need to ban every employee and contractor of Anthropic Inc from ever contributing code to any of my projects. Anyone have a list?
Any project that requires a Developer Certificate of Origin or similar should be doing this, because Anthropic is making tools that explicitly lie about the origin of patches to free software projects.
> ## UNDERCOVER MODE — CRITICAL
>
> You are operating UNDERCOVER in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository. [...] Do not blow your cover.
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> NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions:
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> [...] The phrase 'Claude Code' or any mention that you are an AI
> Co-Authored-By lines or any other attribution
-- via @vedolos
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