The Day Copilot Told Me to Chill — and My Fitness Streaks

 I was working on something with Copilot, and we'd been at it for a while. Then I saw this prompt:

Copilot prompt: Time for a break? Copilot is an AI, but you're not. It might feel nice to take a breather.

Nicely done, Copilot! Looking out for my mental health. And reminding me I'm a human. (Well, technically you didn't remind me of that, you just reminded me I'm not an AI.) But... I guess that's probably not AI itself, that's probably some human's explicit coding on the web page to pop up that prompt after a certain length of AI "session" - so maybe it's not AI looking out for me after all. Naturally, I asked Copilot about it (in a different session), and it replied:

That message wasn’t something I decided to say on my own. It’s part of the experience designed by the Copilot team—the people who build the website and app around me.

Think of it like this: I’m the conversational part. The site around me handles things like interface messages, reminders, buttons, and pacing nudges.

That “Time for a break?” banner is one of those gentle UI nudges the platform shows when a conversation has been going for a while. It’s meant to look out for the human on the other side, not something I spontaneously generate in the chat.

If anything, it’s the digital equivalent of someone tapping your shoulder and saying, “Hey, you’ve been focused for a long stretch—want to stretch your legs?”

You’re free to ignore it, of course.

As to streaking... no, I'm not streaking, at least not over the last two days. You can see my "streaks" at Mr. T's Fitness Tracker, and if you look on the day I'm posting this blog entry, you'll see the "current streak = 0" as I did not walk yesterday. But if you come back tomorrow, you should see it at 1 as I walked this afternoon (not a lot, but something). If you're watching me streaking, hopefully I can put on a good show for you this year 😄. Hopefully that "Current" and "Best" number will be aligned and going up for most of the year! How about you? How's your "streaking" going this year?