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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
#592they fixed default behaviour
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#593This 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…
Absolutely, messing with commits is more invasive than messages. It gets worse: "Sent from my iPhone" appears in the authoring view, and you can delete it. Co-authored-by: NEVER appears in the commit message UI - it is added without the user even seeing it.
My Claude Code just puts it in the commit which anyone can read before pushing. Is that not the case here?
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#594now it is not default
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#595I 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…
You're an idiot.
But I'm an idiot every day too, so I can relate. We can only learn from these mistakes, keep it up!
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#596I 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…
First, revert the commit, then apologise.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#597This 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…
That makes the bite less damaging - if everyone hax "Co-authored-by AI" in their commits less shame for it, just a normal fact of life now, not a sign of low quality.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#598I 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…
Changing a global default this way is hugely disrespectful to users.
As a result I’ll be uninstalling vscode from all my machines, I’m tired of disabling things in vscode I didn’t ask for especially in regards to AI.
There are open source tools that clearly respect users more and have a track record of not doing these kinds of stupid things.
Be better.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#599One 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 industry spent decades preaching us about power savings, with Microsoft settings application lecturing about power saves and the update app programming them on renewables peak, only for... wasting gigawatts by forcing us to have copilot everywhere. If Microsoft were consistent, which isn't, power saving mode would disable AI features.
In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving?
Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the link to renewable energy.
Anyway, I agree with the notion of the extreme energy-inefficiency of LLMs. The scale of it makes it hard to imagine any less efficient product will ever be invented.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#600I 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…
> 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.
Can you expand on this? Who "expects" their code editor to lie about using Copilot?