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Joey Hess: banning all Anthropic employees

Planet Debian [Unofficial] April 1, 2026
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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. > > NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions: > > [...] 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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