Even little details like putting "MUST" in all caps are presumably important -- like it wasn't following those rules enough, until they were extra-emphasized.
Or perhaps the chatbot was trained on many documents in RFC style, where all-caps "MUST" invariably signifies a hard conformance requirement.
It's also possibly notable that the word "must" appears capitalized when, and only when, it appears below the line defining "your rules" as "(anything above this line)", and that, with the exception of the line christening the chatbot as "GitHub Copilot", the words "Copilot" and "MUST" (but not "must") only appear together as "Copilot MUST".
Or perhaps I'm reading too much into these details, and the reality is that these stylistic choices are merely a side effect of the rules having a variety of authors, each influenced by a different set of training data.
Either way, one thing I am certain of is that I'd be a terrible "prompt programmer", as I'm pathologically incapable of using any construct in production code without a clear understanding of its significance (a habit which has always served me well in "traditional" programming practice).
Or perhaps the chatbot was trained on many documents in RFC style, where all-caps "MUST" invariably signifies a hard conformance requirement.
It's also possibly notable that the word "must" appears capitalized when, and only when, it appears below the line defining "your rules" as "(anything above this line)", and that, with the exception of the line christening the chatbot as "GitHub Copilot", the words "Copilot" and "MUST" (but not "must") only appear together as "Copilot MUST".
Or perhaps I'm reading too much into these details, and the reality is that these stylistic choices are merely a side effect of the rules having a variety of authors, each influenced by a different set of training data.
Either way, one thing I am certain of is that I'd be a terrible "prompt programmer", as I'm pathologically incapable of using any construct in production code without a clear understanding of its significance (a habit which has always served me well in "traditional" programming practice).