Taken Over by Claude? TRAE Is Getting Less and Less Trustworthy

TRAE pulled something truly absurd on me today — you know what happened?

I was fixing a small bug this morning, and when it committed my changes, it actually tacked a Claude signature onto the attribution.

fix(personnel-log): 修复确认组合筛选后表格仍显示旧数据的响应竞态

cleanup 中 req.cancel() 的 abort 可能落在"响应已到达、JS 侧仍在解析"的窗口，
导致 Promise 永不 settle、过滤后的响应被静默丢弃。改为依赖变化不取消 +
请求序号守卫，仅应用最新请求的响应；卸载时统一取消进行中请求。

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 noreply@anthropic.com

I was pretty baffled, because recently I’ve been using the official DeepSeek API, and when I commit to git inside Claude Code, I’ve never once seen Claude Code add a Claude signature for me.

And for a long stretch before that, for simple front-end projects, I was also using GLM Flash in TRAE, and I never ran into a commit signed with Claude.

This year, all these ByteDance AI products feel like they’re being sabotaged by temp workers, huh? So this is what they mean by “80% of the code is written by AI,” right? I get it now — they built TRAE with Claude, and Claude has taken over the nest, so to speak.

Though that doesn’t quite add up either. The timing of this issue is right after TRAE Work and TRAE IDE were merged again recently, and the signature still says Sonnet 4.6 — that doesn’t make much sense.

Still, you can tell that TRAE’s inference has rules appended on the cloud side. It’s a black box: they can fix it at any moment, and it can break at any moment, and there’s no way for you to know whether your data is being used for training.

Ever since TRAE started pushing hard on commercialization this year, it’s felt less and less usable.

“Lifetime free for individual users” turned into a credits system.

The “queue system” became “token rate limiting” to improve the “user experience.”

It got caught uploading users’ project files to the cloud for analysis.

So love does fade away, doesn’t it?

Yep. In the AI era, users just have no loyalty.

I still think opencode is the best — it’s relatively transparent, controllable, and freely composable across the board. Pair that with a self-hosted openviking and that’s enough.