Comment by pinkmuffinere
2 months ago
I think they want the free advertisement, like Apple with its “sent from iPhone” addendums. But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful, and significantly shorter. If they just left it at “edited with copilot” I think it would be tolerable
> But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful,
No, it is still an advert, and not useful in the least.
Back in the day, it was useful, as in, "Expect awkward phrasing and unintended effects of autocorrection, because mobile device. This message doesn't necessarily reflect the intent of the sender." (Considerate users would/could edit the signature to something w/o a product name in it.) Nowadays, this is pretty much the norm and no explicit warning ist required anymore.
That just means the person sending the message didn’t bother to proof read their message before sending. And you don’t need to be on an iPhone to mistype a message.
A simpler explanation was that it was a shameful advert injected into the end of people’s emails.
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So an automatic "I am a lazy piece of shit and think my time and convenience are worth more than yours" warning? I guess that's useful.
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When they added this it was extremely useful - it signaled that you could afford an iPhone. It was really easy to delete, yet people not only didn't, but they would go out of their way to respond from the iPhone just so that they could plausibly have this status symbol on their email.
That is also an advert, just a personal one.
It is useful. It tells me that the sender isn't tech savvy and/or likes to show that they prefer expensive apple products. It is like carrying a Prada or Ray-Ban.
It also tells me that they probably don't care about second hand embarrassment.
And it tells me that they checked my email while away from keyboard, which means they are hard working individuals who care about business, but not enough to rush to a computer to reply properly.
Lots of social ques on that one.
I don't think the issue is the sign-off so much as that an existing PR was edited. Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered. But it won't edit an existing PR, and it won't sign off if I simply ask it not too (which I've automated). Editing any PR it touches - including one authored by someone else - is downright rude.
> Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered
Not only unbothered, but genuinely appreciative of the notification.
> Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered
That's a great feature. When I open a repo and I see most commits co-authored by Claude, I can quickly dismiss the entire project as slop.
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That's exactly where my mind went. It's zero percent more insulting to me than 'sent from my iPhone.'
If you don't want copilot garbage in your PRs, maybe don't use copilot to create or edit them?
It already does that, too, with the co-author
I would argue that is a net positive, it is valuable to know if a language model was involved enough to be committing itself.
+1, it definitely changes the way I interact, and the amount of suspicion I would have for the code.
"Sent from iPhone" doesn't contain a call to action, and doesn't exalt the features of the product.
It's still advertisement of the shittiest kind.
Comment made using Mozilla Firefox.
You misunderstood it's purpose:
Sent from iPhone - desirable cool rich person
Made using Mozilla Firefox - poor uncool nerd