"I made a thing! Here's a GitHub link!"
> checks repo
> 2 "contributors"
> 15,000 lines
> Claude is one of those "contributors"
You did not, in fact, "make a thing." You voluntold a chatbot to do it for you and took the credit.
Sham 🏳️🌈
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2026-10-23 14:13:01 UTC
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