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Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by ahartmetz »

chao- wrote: post #22
Waterluvian wrote: post #8

All the people there asking the simple question of why it got changed and getting ignored.

There ought to be decent number of people within Microsoft who have "Copilot usage" as a KPI. I don't think this was gamesmanship on their part (no sarcasm, I truly do not suspect malice), but I'm sure if it could have slipped in without backlash, they would have enjoyed seeing their line go up.

Sorry, I don't see another plausible motive than KPIs must go up. The change came from a product manager and was also reviewed and approved by one or two apparently senior developers. They may have tried to slip it in accidentally on purpose.

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by classified »

chao- wrote: post #22
Waterluvian wrote: post #8

All the people there asking the simple question of why it got changed and getting ignored.

There ought to be decent number of people within Microsoft who have "Copilot usage" as a KPI. I don't think this was gamesmanship on their part (no sarcasm, I truly do not suspect malice), but I'm sure if it could have slipped in without backlash, they would have enjoyed seeing their line go up.

Not suspecting malice from Microslop is an untenable and unsafe position.

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by 47282847 »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #33
AuthAuth wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

“Sent from my mobile phone” - no need to inject a product name

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by cyanydeez »

henry2023 wrote: post #34
arcfour wrote: post #28

I'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".

i think my GPU should get all the credit "Calculated by AMD 395+ MAX"

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by utopiah »

worldsavior wrote: post #58
utopiah wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Probably because it's a PM who coded that bug, so no contest.

Who vibe coded it because who needs coders nowadays anyway.

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by pitched »

pocksuppet wrote: post #43
dyauspitr wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

China is competing so well because it has a central bureaucracy that issues 5 year plans and issues money to get them done. Do you think America should do that too, or do you think America and China are different countries with different values?

Let’s not forget how much US tech came from government programs like ARPA/DARPA. It isn’t exactly a decentralized bureaucracy. Just hasn’t been hitting as well recently.

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by backwardsponcho »

maxloh wrote: post #31
cube00 wrote: post #27

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 :)

"We're sorry we got caught"

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by jamietanna »

est wrote: post #3

I am using a different approach. `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

Nice! I've been doing similar, but prefer using Co-authored-by, especially as it allows for cases where there may be multiple models in play

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by Henchman21 »

AbbeFaria wrote: post #48

I work at MSFT. I can understand the incentives behind this change. Although I am not sure how different GitHub culture is from MSFT. 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 featur…

> I am sure they are closely tracking this metric of Copilot authored PRs

Yeah that number goes WAY UP when you assume all commits are co-authored by Copilot!

This "bug" is an attempt to muddy the waters of what is and is not copyrightable and/or usable for training data. Full stop.

You may be an honest person, but your employers are not.

Re: Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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Post by cardiffspaceman »

reaperducer wrote: post #13
dyauspitr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the problem with intel inside? That’s perfectly normal.

What’s the problem with intel inside? That’s perfectly normal. I don't want my computer to look like it's racing in NASCAR.

If your NASCAR car had a sticker, you’d have ad money from STP/Pennzoil/RainX/whatever.
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