> 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

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.

`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

(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!)

    # increment the current number of users — do it by one
    n_users += 1

The bug is not about code behavior, but rather about getting noticed by users :)

“Sent from my iPhone” isn’t an authorship claim.

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.

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.