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Waterluviantoday at 4:01 AM4 repliesview on HN

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


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jamietannatoday at 7:06 AM

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

chao-today at 4:36 AM

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.

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netuletoday at 5:49 AM

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

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

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xigoitoday at 4:17 AM

We all know the answer anyway.