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Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

#11
I really hope the editor wars don't start again. I've been happily using VsCode for years now. More than happy in fact, it's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, as evidenced by how AI companies basically started as a VsCode fork.

But this is going full-throttle on enshittification.

WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

#12
post #4

"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.

However, there's one counterexample: some email clients in the past experienced explosive growth by adding signatures. It was annoying, but it definitely worked.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

#16
I personally don't mind if an AI inserts it's "Co-Authored by" tag into commits it has worked on - it's transparency, I used its help and it should get credit for good work, or disdain for bad.

But, just inserting the tag because it's being used for git commands - there's a line there.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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post #11

I really hope the editor wars don't start again. I've been happily using VsCode for years now. More than happy in fact, it's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, as evidenced by how AI companies basically started as a VsCode fork. But this is going full-throttle on enshittification. WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

> WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

"Make a great free product so that we can enshittify it later" is an infamous MS playbook. Maybe nothing happened, maybe just the usual MS at work.

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