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Should you keep “Co-authored-by: Claude”? How to turn off AI commit trailers, and why you might not

Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Codex and aider sign the commits they help write. How to turn each one off, what the Linux kernel learned when it asked people to sign by hand, and why a team that wants to know what agents changed should keep the line.

Is AI code rotting open source? 450 repos, 12 months

We counted AI-signed pull requests in 450 popular repos across nine languages, then measured what happened to the code in the 100 TypeScript and C# ones. Who writes the code now, what got more complex, and where AI code looks fine.