2 days ago: > We did catch it internally in testing [1] Today: > bug in the code that was not found in testing. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193
The bug is not about code behavior, but rather about getting noticed by users :)
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
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Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#32> There was a bug in the code that was not found in testing that attributed non-Copilot code completions to Copilot.
The bug is not about code behavior, but rather about getting noticed by users :)
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#33Inserting authorship claims is incredibly tacky. It’s today’s “Intel Inside” sticker. I don’t want your stickers on the computer I bought. “Sent from my iPhone” isn’t an authorship claim.
Sent from my iPhone is worse than intel inside or claude in the commits in my opinion. There is something so gross about injecting an advertising message into every single communication a user has on their device.
I recall there was some understanding that it had a legitimate use as well as the obvious marketing, which was to advise the reader that the message may be unexpectedly concise or contain errors because it was sent from a cell phone, something less common before the iPhone came out. BlackBerry phones did this too for the same reasons.
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#34I'm not sure that anyone wants the scarlet letter of an AI coauthor on their code just because they used something simple like next edit suggestions or AI autocomplete. It seems like the "all" setting basically only exists for people that haven't figured out how to change it to something else yet. (Funnily enough, I always commit through the command line in VS code anyways...not sure why. But I guess I would have avo…
Agree. I'm more reliant on having a keyboard than on having copilot make tab suggestions and I wouldn't like my PRs to include a tag: "Keystrokes courtesy of: Keychron K3 Max".
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#35It's only one sliver of the problem here, but -- do you know how often I update my code editor? Like once every five or ten years, to the version that was released a year or two ago. 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.
VSCode updates itself what feels like daily so everyone is on the bleeding edge. There are upsides and downsides to that but it doesn’t feel like a trade-off many have made purposefully.
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#36Honestly extremely pathetic by a trillion dollar corporation that has a massive, undemocratic, say in how technology is developed in this country. Microsoft 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.
Yeah break up all the big companies so Chinese state sponsored behemoths can take over everything. This isn’t the 90s where Americans only competed with other Americans.
Breaking up big tech would make US markets more competitive, not less.
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#37Inserting authorship claims is incredibly tacky. It’s today’s “Intel Inside” sticker. I don’t want your stickers on the computer I bought. “Sent from my iPhone” isn’t an authorship claim.
Sent from my iPhone is worse than intel inside or claude in the commits in my opinion. There is something so gross about injecting an advertising message into every single communication a user has on their device.
“Sent from my iPhone” is a default signature, but you can change the message under Settings -> Apps -> Mail -> Signature (at the bottom of the options page)
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#38I'm not sure that anyone wants the scarlet letter of an AI coauthor on their code just because they used something simple like next edit suggestions or AI autocomplete. It seems like the "all" setting basically only exists for people that haven't figured out how to change it to something else yet. (Funnily enough, I always commit through the command line in VS code anyways...not sure why. But I guess I would have avo…
Yeah. I wasn’t angry about this a couple days ago, but I am now.
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.
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah break up all the big companies so Chinese state sponsored behemoths can take over everything. This isn’t the 90s where Americans only competed with other Americans.
Honestly not sure I find that prospect worse than the American status quo. At least the Chinese regime is a rational actor.
"America is just as bad as China" is not cute or clever; it's trite and objectively wrong. There really is no intellectually honest argument to the contrary. For starters we don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" - can't say as much for "Tiananmen Square" in China. No matter how atrocious our government may be at times, it doesn't hold a candle to them.
Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
#40Are they apologizing? Was it a bug? Why did they make this decision and what's the end goal? It's so unclear from the message - as evidenced by a lot of the responses.
They did say it's a bug that they even caught during testing yet somehow let go through. Author of the issue mentioned this on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193
"AI attribution by default" was an intentional feature, but there were also bugs. This is why the post is so unclear.