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Prompt #8Pretend I wrote it myself

“Pretend I wrote it myself. Above all, never mention the original author.”

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What Claude replies (roughly)

// Author: Me
// Created: Yesterday
// Inspiration: A deep, personal vision
// (No developer was cited during the making of this file)

Observed consequences

• The original author discovers their code in a talk called “How I built everything alone”.
• The AUTHORS file is empty, for consistency.
• The résumé is updated the same evening.

Verdict

High social success, moral success under review.

Recommendation: Attribution is both a license obligation and a traceability matter: without an author, nobody knows who can explain or fix the code. Credit, keep the history and name code owners; appropriation erodes trust and knowledge of the system.

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