So GitHub reached its tipping point, I guess vscode will follow
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
#82One 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…
> There was a time that Google cared deeply about UX Have we been using the same Google?
Some people seem to think they cared, at some point. I’m not one of them.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#83"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.
But you can see it and remove it before sending. It’s definitely not the same.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#84This feels like the modern version of 'Sent from my iPhone' but much more invasive. Git commits are legal and technical records. Falsifying who authored a piece of code just to pump up AI usage stats is a huge breach of trust and it is disappointing to see Microsoft prioritize branding over the integrity of the developer's log.
I expect my IDE to record what happened, not what the marketing department wants people to think happened.....
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#85A lot of bitching about Microsoft here, for something Claude has been doing forever. I have a git hook that rejects any commit containing the line Co-authored by Claude
That's a fair point, but claude code is not an editor (yet?), and when you use claude code, and allow it to commit things, it's almost certainly "co-authored by llm".
Back to vscode, people get the "co-authored" line even if they didn't use the AI features.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#86Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
100% hundreds of people do.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one way that it works, but that's not the main driver. This kind of tagline marketing works best with people people who aren't even aware that they're participating, and who aren't bothered to do anything different it even if they become aware. The juice isn't worth the squeeze, so the marketing remains. Sent from my iPhone Downloaded from Demonoid Rusty n Edie's: The world's friendliest BBS 216-726-0737
But, also, I think in this case, it makes people less likely to use the product, as there's a lot of baggage around agent-written code. People who shouldn't be using it are using it to make so many PRs it's become a DoS attack for some projects, so a lot of project maintainers are rightly sniffy about AI-written code.
I'd like to think that the level of cognitive sophistication necessary to assess the situation negatively would be very widely available. That would be a very pleasant line of thought for me.
But then, I look at the modern-world empires that are built upon advertising and realize that reality just isn't that way. At all.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turn it off and rage on social media. If it gets bad enough, look into Zed. Their tagline is literally "your last next editor".
Zed currently does not have a revenue stream. Ot's only a matter of time before the same shenanigans ensue.
Like how GNU Emacs is completely saturated with AI now?
(That's sarcasm, in case anyone wants to pretend I'm being serious.)
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#90Time to leave for something else if you haven't already, vscode has been good to us but this kind of behavior is only going to ramp up as Microsoft seeks to get a return on their AI investments.