AI agents help me draft some of what I post on GitHub. When one of them actually posts on my behalf, I want you to know. So I’ve started attaching a small signature to those posts:
Generated via Copilot (<model name>) on behalf of @tclem
This is not intended to be an ad. I don’t have an affiliation with any of the model providers and I don’t receive any special compensation for or even measure interaction with this signature — though I do still work for GitHub and you should try Copilot!
My intention is to provide attribution and breadcrumbs of provenance while retaining a responsible human (me) behind the content. I want whoever reads that content to know how I created it. Just like reviewing code hand-written by a colleague is very different from reviewing code written by said colleague’s AI, review comments, issues, and PR descriptions can be handled differently when composed by a human vs an agent. I want to be clear and transparent.
