{"slug": "stop-advertising-in-your-commits", "title": "Stop advertising in your commits", "summary": "A developer is urging the open-source community to stop including promotional tags like \"Assisted by [AI tool]\" or \"co-authored-by: [AI company]\" in commit messages, calling them unpaid advertisements for companies that profit from subscription fees. The author argues that commit messages should be reserved for technical information only and that developers should disclose AI tool usage in merge requests instead. The post criticizes any tool that inserts advertising into commits or emails, labeling such practices as harmful to open-source projects.", "body_md": "Co-authored-by: ur mom\n\nI don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but actively take money from them in subscription fees).\n\n\"Assisted by blabot\", \"co-authored-by: slopgpt\", \"sent from my fartphone\"\n\nWhy? **It's a fucking ad.** I bet you use ad blockers, yet you add ads to your commits.\n\n**Stop that.**\n\nDisclose your \"AI\" tools in a merge request if needed but leave them out of the damn commits, those are for technical information and not for advertising. Or just add \"generated by an LLM\" but do not give those companies free advertising space. Or just.. Do not use these tools, which is fairly easy.\n\nAny tool that adds advertising to my commits or emails or whatever messages is **a really bad one**.\n\nFuck ads.\n\nAlso before someone gets their nipples in a twist about something, here is my \"AI\" stance: [https://akselmo.dev/posts/why-i-will-likely-never-use-ai-programming-tools/](https://akselmo.dev/posts/why-i-will-likely-never-use-ai-programming-tools/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-advertising-in-your-commits", "canonical_source": "https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/", "published_at": "2026-05-26 17:56:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-26 22:10:06.623003+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Akselmo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-advertising-in-your-commits", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-advertising-in-your-commits.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-advertising-in-your-commits.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-advertising-in-your-commits.jsonld"}}