TechTakes

Giving Claude or copilot attribution plays into the narrative that LLMs are more than just random word generators and that they can be ascribed authorship... I think it's a deliberate strategy so that when there's inevitably a massive copyright case MisAnthropic etc al can say "but looks at all the code co-written by Claude on GitHub" to try and convince the judge.

Just imagine building a house and saying "well I didn't do it on my own, my concrete mixer, toolbelt and coffee machine all helped!"

We did catch it internally in testing (as we use VS Code for all our work, so some folks did stumble on it), but I think we underestimated the impact and should do a better job at that.

Either this is an outright lie or it's a sign of just how fucked this industry has gotten. There should be no way that anyone looked at this and decided it wasn't a big enough deal to block given that this is basically the single issue driving most of the industry's cultural discourse and a good chunk of the broader world's as well. If that's what happened then the people making those decisions are so thoroughly insulated from literally any feedback that the industry - to say nothing of the world at large - would be better served if they were replaced by a literal magic 8 ball.

That's the straw. I am moving to the woods [switching to vim]

What about the git commit messages for the Microsoft PM who vibe-coded all these changes. Were they also accompanied by a "Co-Authored by GitHub" message? Because that'd be hilarious if they weren't.

Almost like they want to destroy any trust people have in tech companies.

Joke’s on them, I use Sublime Text.