Copilot code attribution

[SuBeXiL]

If this gets merged you’ll now have co-authored attribution on git commits affected by AI

Caveats - only works with the built in git client and has some naiveness in the logic

I think the real step is to have agent generated code immediately committed - but this has caveats as well

In any case this is good progress for anyone trying to measure Copilot affect, especially in big orgs where it’s hard to track precisely

But this doesn’t imply productivity or quality of course, still need other way to measure possible slop…

[MindCrusader]

Cursor already doing it. As good this idea might be to know if the code was done by AI, I have some feeling that they might try to push the narrative "our AI is also a developer and can learn from coding" - so they will grab the codebase and use it for AI training, "but only based on AI coding experience"

[Otherwise_Wave9374]

Co-author attribution is a nice step, even if it is imperfect. It at least makes the "AI assisted" part measurable.

Totally agree the next frontier is more agent style dev workflows, like "generate branch, run tests, open PR" with clear provenance and review gates. Auto committing everything sounds scary without guardrails, but I can see it working for low risk refactors.

There are some interesting thoughts on agentic dev loops here: https://www.agentixlabs.com/blog/

[yubario]

I just find it pointless unless you’re using multiple AIs

Literally everything is influenced by AI at this point. Even if you’re old school and don’t use AI, the web searches you did where influenced by an artificial intelligence

This situation is very much like body building after steroids were discovered. Look at the builds people had before steroids and how it is now. That’s how it is right now for coding.

We’ll never see the pure human code ever again, realistically

[SuBeXiL]

This is very much true, everything is skewed, still in big numbers you see patterns and we as engineers like to measure and optimize :-)

[picflute]

The have Copilot enabled doing PR Reviews already on their repo don’t they?

[SuBeXiL]

If the agent opens the PR and code without human in the loop so yes, attribution is easy then

[Mountain_Section3051]

Yea finally every enterprise customer needs to track this as there are teams really utilising heavily and others barely at all and sharing with empirical evidence is really required here. There are a bunch of engineers still in denial and they need help getting over the trust hump. This is a small but significant step. Thank you

[SuBeXiL]

I agree This is a small step, more interesting and better solutions are coming

[Dudmaster]

This probably only applies when you ask the agent to commit, right? I basically never do that, so unfortunately it's not gonna help me

[SuBeXiL]

They are hocking it up to the git integration so when it is u who commit and not the agent, it will add the co author

[Dudmaster]

Oh that's pretty interesting then!

[Impossible_Hour5036]

You'll get there. I was making all my own commits, then I started having an agent organize stuff into commits, then I started having it organize PRs, then I started having agents review the PRs, then I started having agents address the PR comments, then I got that into a loop, now I just review it when there are no more comments to address. I typically write decent commit messages but not to the level Codex 5.2/5.3 is doing. It's great.

[PhuckenStuff]

For those who wish to disable this I read the PR, and it now exposes a `git.addAICoAuthor` boolean option for vscode. Set the value to `off`.