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Because most people have at least tried these products and it’s not like the agent is being hidden away. It makes commits to your repo using its name as the author (for now).
Do you assume anyone who knows something you don’t has no life? Strange way to live.
Claude is a common name. I would assume that someone has already had an account named that since the very beginning of github.
ok well, the people who use github and write programs are probably a lot more likely to have experience with claude than you are so they probably didn't make the same assumptions you did!
Conflating writing software with using github is hilarious
They are separate clauses in that sentence. Please learn to read.