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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

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Post by Ferret7446 »

rsynnott wrote: post #26

One 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…

What do you mean, there are many, perhaps too many, AI standards. MCP, SKILLS.md, A2A, two different ACPs, ECA.

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

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dmitriv wrote: post #268

I am the person who approved this PR and would like to acknowledge and apologize for the mistake of turning this feature on by default without sufficient upfront validation. There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code. As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well. Obviously, it should not be on…

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

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Post by tardedmeme »

TeriyakiBomb wrote: post #172
OutOfHere wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you still think crypto and AI are nonsense, then I guess you will carry these beliefs the rest of your life, but these beliefs won't outlive you, as they have no relation to reality.

I said AI has utility but drives irrational levels of investment. Crypto has little utility besides a place to gamble, con credulous people and otherwise act as a really shitty store of wealth. Most modern crypto projects barely bother to promise to do anything useful let alone achieve anything useful, which the overwhelming majority do not. These aren't beliefs but statements of fact.

Those things you listed have lots of utility. Gambling is one of the most lucrative industries to be in.

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

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Post by IAmGraydon »

nhinck2 wrote: post #400
dmitriv wrote: post #268

I am the person who approved this PR and would like to acknowledge and apologize for the mistake of turning this feature on by default without sufficient upfront validation. There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code. As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well. Obviously, it should not be on…

> a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code Literally who?

No one, which is why he refuses to reply further to any of these inquiries.

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

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Post by dang »

Recent and related:

Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958353 - April 2026 (36 comments)

(Looks like that one never made the front page, so we won't treat the current one as a dupe)

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

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Post by tardedmeme »

artyom wrote: post #441
joohwan wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you fell for this once again, there's nobody else to blame but yourself. We don’t need snarky comments like this, especially when the technology in question is so pervasive and takes a lot of cognitive effort to avoid. The blame lies solely with Microsoft.

What you call snarky , I call individual accountability .

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

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Post by dylan604 »

drivers99 wrote: post #379
xp84 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 years as an alternative to thoughtful UI design. We humans made everything shitty before we made AI.

> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least the windows are outlined sharply.

The "Differentiate wihout color" is one I like. All of the on/off sliders now have a 1 or 0 to indicate on/off

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

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Post by tardedmeme »

SwellJoe wrote: post #65
ssl-3 wrote: post #27

Earlier 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.

There's no such thing as bad publicity. If people who didn't know about your product become angry about your product, they're more likely to buy it.

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

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Post by andrekandre »

docheinestages wrote: post #348

Even large companies like Anthropic and Microsoft keep pushing out features without proper code and/or product review. This has become a bottleneck in software engineering.

its a sad truth, but in the end, for companies, software is just a means to an end: more revenue

and if they can get more revenue by less quality and cutting corners they will do it; see countless examples of such scandals in many industries...

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

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Post by teg4n_ »

kgeist wrote: post #416
dmitriv wrote: post #268

I am the person who approved this PR and would like to acknowledge and apologize for the mistake of turning this feature on by default without sufficient upfront validation. There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code. As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well. Obviously, it should not be on…

Interesting case: - a project manager vibe-coded the change without thinking it through at all - the PR was reviewed by an LLM - an actual engineer gave LGTM without really reviewing the changes, trusting the LLM Did I get this right?

The LLM actually points out the problem tho
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