> We did catch it internally in testing [1]
Today:
> bug in the code that was not found in testing.
IMO (and I am biased because I have written about this before in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164481) but I believe it's to make sure they're legally covering their users, and making sure users of AI tools do at least have some attribution for AI-derived contributions
Original PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
`user.email` is always my email.
`user.name` is either my account name, or model name like `gpt-5.5-high`.
I can easily filter & blame which line was written by me or some specific AI
In that case, the "Co-authored-by: Copilot" method doesn't quite work either. You have to split the commit somehow.
> this is who’s driving the AI
As indicated by the consistent user.email value.
(Funnily enough, I always commit through the command line in VS code anyways...not sure why. But I guess I would have avoided this annoyance, so that's a plus!)
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So the thing that’s on by default and makes autocomplete worse (plain intelligence never changed my s.x = 0 to s.xVInputRadiusDetectionThreshold = 0 if I happened to take my eyes off the screen for a moment) is now stealing credit for my work?
I’m speechless.
Also glad I use a standalone git client.
I am sure they are closely tracking this metric of Copilot authored PRs so that everyone down from Nadella to the dev and PM for this can use it to hype up GH Copilot. It’s also a simple and clean metric that goes well in your Connects (performance discussion), you could say the feature I worked on led to xx million copilot authored PRs and there is now an AI usage mandate and you need to mention how you used AI to do something more efficiently blah blah. It’s good old promotion theatre. I don’t think its unique to MSFT though and is probably common across Big Tech.
The bug is not about code behavior, but rather about getting noticed by users :)
I do my own commits by hand so it's moot anyway, but there's a fair bit of "leopards ate my face" going in the GitHub thread.
# increment the current number of users — do it by one
n_users += 1Microsoft should be broken up into a dozen different companies and it's quite clear they violated their consent decree from the US DOJ a few decades later, so they should get punished extra hard. Maybe nationalize Excel putting it in the public domain for starters.
“Sent from my iPhone” isn’t an authorship claim.
There is something so gross about injecting an advertising message into every single communication a user has on their device.
You are right, it was advertising, but it advertized the user, not Apple.
I also recommend specifying model name and version so the maintainer knows upfront the level of slop they are dealing with.
I don't want my computer to look like it's racing in NASCAR.