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Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?

A Hacker News user asks whether developers give AI coding agents their own GitHub accounts, sparking discussion on best practices for managing AI contributions to code repositories.

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Joe Shipman proves marked ruler and compass solves the general quintic How to handle manager adding AI bs to our codebase/designs etc. Ask HN: Anyone using DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as part of a customer-facing agent?
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