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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 ElFitz »

Scarbutt wrote: post #43
preommr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Zed is years behind VSCode in terms of polish

One could think that. But VSCode is the one that occasionally failed to simply render text.

No idea what happened these handful of times, but the UI was just completely screwed up, as if it were one of these "scratch to reveal" games, but with the file’s content (and unresponsive, obviously).

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

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Post by Jtarii »

low_tech_love wrote: post #23
awesome_dude wrote: post #16

I personally don't mind if an AI inserts it's "Co-Authored by" tag into commits it has worked on - it's transparency, I used its help and it should get credit for good work, or disdain for bad. But, just inserting the tag because it's being used for git commands - there's a line there.

I’m sorry, I don’t get it: a piece of software needs credit for creating another piece of software? Like, would you credit GCC for adding optimisations to your binary?

GCC isn't making editorial decisions.

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

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Post by MkLouis »

Jeez, you can see many things wrong with this new all-in AI direction that Microsoft is taking. Commit by a product manager, who probably actually never digged through the code before…automated ai review not catching the problem, and the vibe codes pr introduction the error itself

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

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Post by SwellJoe »

ssl-3 wrote: post #27
SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.

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.

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

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Post by ninjahawk1 »

lpcvoid wrote: post #39
ninjahawk1 wrote: post #29

Great, here’s how to remove it from your commits: Run git commit --amend Your text editor will open. Delete the line: Co-authored-by: Github Copilot Save and exit Force push the change: git push --force-with-lease

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I like your solution better.

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

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Post by janice1999 »

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…

They invested billions. They're scared.

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

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Post by telchior »

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?

That someone saw Google's claim that 75% of their code is written with AI and said "hold my beer".

Juiced stats? No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.

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