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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.

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

So freaking weird. Is it normal at MS for Product Managers to push code? wtf

Original PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

Isn't this the promise of AI?

Agreed they could be clearer on this

IMO (and I am biased because I have written about this before in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164481) but I believe it's to make sure they're legally covering their users, and making sure users of AI tools do at least have some attribution for AI-derived contributions

We all know the answer anyway.