alt Hacker NewsThis is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere.
The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?
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k8sToGo • yesterday at 9:32 PM
Isn't that someone the person who created the PR? "Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!" it says on her profile
whynotmaybe • yesterday at 9:46 PM
Isn't it also cause they want to tag those commit so that they don't feed it into copilot training?
harambee4ever • yesterday at 11:59 PM
My first thought when I read this was that it was accidental. But the title of the PR looks like that they aren't even trying to hide it
telchior • yesterday at 9:29 PM
That someone saw Google's claim that 75% of their code is written with AI and said "hold my beer".
Juiced stats? No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.
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A Principal Software Engineer at Microslop merged this - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitriy-vasyura-9191611/
This is the author of the MR - https://github.com/cwebster-99 - A Product Manager at Microslop
I've routinely spoken on the uselessness, and oftentimes detriment of product managers in tech.
The dearth of leadership driving for vanity metrics like PMs writing code doesn't help either.