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The "regardless of usage" in the HN title isn't correct. If you dig into the source you see that the attribution line is only added when some changes in the commit come from Copilot, either inline completion or agent. @dang

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That is the crux of the issue: the detection of whether the changes came from copilot or not is buggy, thus all changes are flagged as coming from copilot, thus the title is correct.

That's not what the Pull Request intends, though. There's a difference between "This PR is buggy and enables attribution on everything" vs "VS Code enables attribution on everything".

The title is fuzzy on intent, making people believe it's intentional when one shouldn't assume intention (Hanlon).

Who cares what it intends when they approve it and put into production?

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