A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio Code – even when the programmer behind the screen...
I also thought that the above quote “Redmond employees did not encounter in their testing environment.” was interesting, because just a couple of days ago the exact same Microsoft engineer said this about the exact same pull request:
Fair point. 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.
I also thought that the above quote “Redmond employees did not encounter in their testing environment.” was interesting, because just a couple of days ago the exact same Microsoft engineer said this about the exact same pull request:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193
I guess he must have changed his mind since then? lol
Underestimating the impact of pushing out known buggy update vibe coded by a PM to millions of users? lol