The day I see it does this is the day I switch to zed, or whatever.
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
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Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#32Isn’t this a kind of “leopards ate my face” situation? I thought we had all “agreed” that letting AI write code and take control of software repositories is good, even if we have no idea what is going on beyond a thin surface layer, because well it’s fast and we can fix it later and lol who needs testing? My customers are my testers.
And now it’s suddenly bad because the developer is the customer?
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#33One fascinating thing about the whole AI phenomenon is how incredibly hostile it is to _standards_. Whether something works properly, or is ethical, or is true, no longer matters at all; all that matters is "pls use our AI". Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation. And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods. And it's not just them. There was a time that Google care…
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#34Whenever I use Cursor's voice dictation, my prompts get "Thank you" inserted at the end of the sentence.
That happens in most speech to text systems, even Superwhisper, Monologue and Wispr Flow. I read somewhere it comes from training on YouTube audio and happens when there is silence. I guess it depends on the model but most of them are based on Whisper which has this problem
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#35Microsoft is such a master class in how to make me hate you, quickly.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#36"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.
Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.
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#37I 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.
I’m sorry, I don’t get it: a piece of software needs credit for creating another piece of software? Like, would you credit GCC for adding optimisations to your binary?
It's a useful warning label for LLMed code. (When an editor isn't gratuitously adding it to non-LLMed code.)
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#38This is really bad.
Should be the top comment for succintly summarizing the situation.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#39Great, here’s how to remove it from your commits: Run git commit --amend Your text editor will open. Delete the line: Co-authored-by: Github Copilot Save and exit Force push the change: git push --force-with-lease
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Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#40One fascinating thing about the whole AI phenomenon is how incredibly hostile it is to _standards_. Whether something works properly, or is ethical, or is true, no longer matters at all; all that matters is "pls use our AI". Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation. And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods. And it's not just them. There was a time that Google care…
The only question is "number go up?": will this result in more money from investors or not?