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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 justinclift »

cheschire wrote: post #214
artyom wrote: post #182

To everyone who bought the "developer-friendly" Microsoft of VSCode fame from a few years ago: this is what they forever did, and forever will do. This company has been pulling these tricks since the early 90s. If you fell for this once again, there's nobody else to blame but yourself.

You may be surprised to learn some of the employed adults on this site were born after the 90’s.

Unfortunately, quite a few of these young adults ignored the people who lived through it last time and were repeatedly warning them about it.

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

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Post by ninjalanternshk »

frizlab wrote: post #82
buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

If you had been a Yahoo user when Google launched, you’d understand.

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

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Post by KyleBerezin »

quote: "Thank you all for your feedback, professional or otherwise. Sorry about the regression. I will work on fixing this in 1.119.

There is a number of issues with the Co-Author functionality:

It should never have been enabled when disableAIFeatures is on. It should not add attribution to changes that were not done by AI. We need to make sure it receives a more test coverage before change the default. If you have additional (constructive) feedback, please ping me directly or open an issue."

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

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Post by cjonas »

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…

Claude code not supporting specifying an alternate location to look for agent skills is another example.

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

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Post by accelbred »

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #173
cozzyd wrote: post #25

My newest yocto image mounts a 640K RO tmpfs on top of $HOME/.vscode-server to prevent people using VSCode from shitting all over the relatively small emmc.

Can you explain how this works? Doesn’t this also stop you from connecting to it over ssh via vs code?

Sounds like a feature.

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

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Post by Gibbon1 »

Aurornis wrote: post #229
Gibbon1 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One could argue that Co-Authored by Copilot means 'not under copyright'

The headline literally says the line is being inserted regardless of usage, which makes it easy to argue that it’s entirely meaningless as an indicator of AI use at all.

If you can get AI to write your slop is it really socially valuable enough to justify copyright?

Even before AI copyrighting software was questionable.

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

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Post by harambee4ever »

mister_mort wrote: post #41

This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere . The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?

My first thought when I read this was that it was accidental. But the title of the PR looks like that they aren't even trying to hide it
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