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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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I just wanted to say, while I think this feature was a bad idea, I sincerely applaud your willingness to post here, knowing you'll get roasted. Seriously brave and commendable.

They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

That's a good point, let's see if they come back and respond. It is the middle of the night in the US so they may be sleeping

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

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Cryptocurrencies are now useless, considering how openai and similar companies have enough compute to highjack them and the AI thing might not work out at all…

I want the drugs you’re on :D

Thanks for your deep and clearly thought out reply.

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

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post #384

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Cryptocurrencies are now useless, considering how openai and similar companies have enough compute to highjack them and the AI thing might not work out at all…

That's 100% nonsense.

Thanks for putting the time to articulate why the AI GPUs cannot possibly be used to fork the blockchain and obtain the majority.

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

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Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable. Even if this feature worked correctly, it obviously doesn’t, this should at minimum be a prompt after upgrade to let the user confirm that this is what they want. But honestly should be opt in for those that want it. To have it silently just start adding marketing copy to git commit messages is pretty bad. To have that ad…

> To have it silently just start adding marketing copy to git commit messages is pretty bad. To have that added text not be visible to the user in the UI so they can remove it before commit is just much worse. This is one of the problems, but it is not only one. To be better, should be: 1. It should be visible in the UI for entering the commit message, to make it clear what it is doing. 2. It should not add such a th…

Agreed on both points. Having it shown before going into the commit would let the developer decide whether they want it. #2 is fixed in my PR.

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

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I thank Microsoft deeply for the forced copilot crap, almost impossible to remove, that they have put into vs code. Finally after 5 years I have deleted vs code in my Mac! that was the last piece of windows software I still had around. VS code was great years ago, until Microsoft started to push crap into it – and afaik they also made the fully open-source, telemetry-free fork difficult to use with many extensions.

Really, thanks for forcing me into deleting it. turns out vim + Claude Code or codex was much better all along, it really works well for me.

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

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post #546

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They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

That's a good point, let's see if they come back and respond. It is the middle of the night in the US so they may be sleeping

It is the middle of the night and I am responding. Anything specific you'd like me to respond to?

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

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OMG this is wonderful! Thank you.

A lot of people who think of themselves as able-bodied never think to poke around in the Accessibility sections of their settings menus. But it turns out that accessibility options are for everyone; people should really think of and evaluate them as first class tools more often

They really should just have a single checkbox, "Prioritise usability over wank", and leave it at that.

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

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OMG this is wonderful! Thank you.

A lot of people who think of themselves as able-bodied never think to poke around in the Accessibility sections of their settings menus. But it turns out that accessibility options are for everyone; people should really think of and evaluate them as first class tools more often

Or,are we just getting older and these things suddenly matter?

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

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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…

Don't you understand that the default shouldn't be changed at all in this case? It improves nothing and affects every single user. If an org/project wants this behavior then it can enforce this flag for its contributions. The only valid reason for this change is someone's performance somewhere in Microsoft is dependent on VS Copilot usage metric.

Good feedback, there needs to be a more explicit opt-in into this for teams that want it. FWIW nobody's performance here will improve from having this metric :-)
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