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?
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
#42"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.
Does anybody else remember Tapatalk? They did the same with signatures in forums.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#43If you're angry about this then what are you going to do about it?
Turn it off and rage on social media. If it gets bad enough, look into Zed. Their tagline is literally "your last next editor".
Unfortunately, Zed is years behind VSCode in terms of polish, Microsoft supported LSPs just work better in VSCode, they are better integrated, and Zed can't do anything about LSPs memory or peformance.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#44I really hope the editor wars don't start again. I've been happily using VsCode for years now. More than happy in fact, it's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, as evidenced by how AI companies basically started as a VsCode fork. But this is going full-throttle on enshittification. WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?
The editor wars never ended, and VSCode has been user hostile since inception. It came with unavoidable telemetry right out the gate.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#45Wasn’t it discussed here that no copyrights apply to code generated by AI? I’m asking myself whether adding "Co-authored-by: Copilot" means the code is not protected by the GPL, or even allows Microsoft to own your code...
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#46"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.
Microsoft already does this with their mobile Outlook. Sent by Outlook Android / iOS on the bottom of the message.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#47Adding Copilot as co-author: For when just stealing other people's code doesn't cut it anymore.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#48Next it will be Co-authored by Co-Pilot with help from Dominos Pizza
But only if you watched this 1 min Segment of today's sponsor...
Your free commit today is brought to you by duff beer
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#49Search for "AICoauthor" in VSCode settings and turn it off.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#50If you're angry about this then what are you going to do about it?
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.