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Copilot edited an ad into my PR
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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#392I actually love these ads and also the way Claude injects itself as a co-author. Seeing them is an easy signal to recognize work that was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away. I think we should continue encouraging AI-generated PRs to label themselves, honestly. I’m not against AI coding tools, but I would like to know when someone is tryin…
> […] and also the way Claude injects itself as a co-author. > Seeing them is an easy signal to recognize work that was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away. I was doing the opposite when using ChatGPT. Specifically manually setting the git commit author as ChatGPT complete with model used, and setting myself as committer. That way I (and e…
If you review the code then committing as yourself makes perfect sense to me
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#393The ads are annoying, and I'm glad Microsoft will stop doing it. One thing I do like, however, is how agents add themselves as co-authors in commit messages. Having a signal for which commits are by hand and which are by agent is very useful, both for you and in aggregate (to see how well you are wielding AI, and the quality of the code being generated). Even when I edit the commit message, I still leave in the Claud…
I don't quite see the benefit of this, personally.
Whoever is submitting the code is still responsible for it, why would the reviewer care if you wrote it with your fingers or if an LLM wrote (parts of) it? The quality+understanding bar shouldn't change just because "oh idk claude wrote this part". You don't get extra leeway just because you saved your own time writing the code - that fact doesn't benefit me/the project in any way.
Likewise, leaving AI attribution in will probably have the opposite effect as well, where a perfectly good few lines of code gets rejected because some reviewer saw it was claude and assumed it was slop. Neither of these cases seems helpful to anyone (obviously its not like AI can't write a single useable line of code).
The code is either good or it isn't, and you either understand it or you don't. Whether you or claude wrote it is immaterial.
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#394what kind of turd uses ai to correct a typo
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#395The ads are annoying, and I'm glad Microsoft will stop doing it. One thing I do like, however, is how agents add themselves as co-authors in commit messages. Having a signal for which commits are by hand and which are by agent is very useful, both for you and in aggregate (to see how well you are wielding AI, and the quality of the code being generated). Even when I edit the commit message, I still leave in the Claud…
So, philosophically speaking, I agree with this approach. But I did read that there was some speculation regarding the future legal implications of signalling that an AI wrote/cowrote a commit. I know Anthropic's been pretty clear that we own the generated code, but if a copyright lawsuit goes sideways (since these were all built with pirated data and licensed code) — does that open you or your company up to litigati…
If you're concerned about copyright risk, don't you want that kind of tagging so you could prove it wasn't used on particular code?
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#396Once again, Microslop doing Microslop things
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#397Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…
> We won't do something like this again.
it won't be an ad. It won't be a tip. It will be a suggestion! Recommendation! Opportunity!
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
> […] and also the way Claude injects itself as a co-author. > Seeing them is an easy signal to recognize work that was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away. I was doing the opposite when using ChatGPT. Specifically manually setting the git commit author as ChatGPT complete with model used, and setting myself as committer. That way I (and e…
If you review the code then committing as yourself makes perfect sense to me
If you review a juniors code, do you commit it under your name?
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#399Back in September 2023, I already saw Copilot ads popping up in GitHub's file previews [1]. After three years, it's wild to see how advertising has reached areas I honestly never thought it would.
Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR
#400Ironically tfa is festooned with ads.
Sure, but the source blogpost isn't.