Re: LLM Commit in upstream `master`?!

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:30:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christine Lemmer-Webber [25/Jul  7:09am -04] wrote:
> I, too, am disturbed by this. I'm also not a fan of the way that
> "Co-authored by Claude Fable 5" reminds me of "sent from my iPhone", it
> ends up being a marketing system for these organizations.
>
> On the fediverse it was also pointed out that the AuthorDate is listed
> as May 20th 2026:
>
>   https://goto.boserup.eu/@ah/statuses/01KYC7QYHVEEF2WD8ZHTFV7YDD
>
> This seems impossible, "Claude Fable 5" was not even available for
> public use by then.
>
> What is going on here?

Perhaps Yuan started working on it by hand in May and then the LLM was
used to amend the commit the later.

I'm sure that this was just a mistake or misunderstanding.

Yuan, I think we have to revert this commit, but before doing so, can
you explain what happened here?

-- 
Sean Whitton