Microsoft is such a master class in how to make me hate you, quickly.
I know you didn’t mean it that way, but boy did that make me feel old.
Anyone else remember the bill gates borg category on slashdot?
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
#72Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958353
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#73Earlier 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".
Zed currently does not have a revenue stream. Ot's only a matter of time before the same shenanigans ensue.
They're a commercial entity that sells AI plans and enterprise features.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#74This 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?
Isn't that someone the person who created the PR?
"Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!" it says on her profile
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#75A lot of bitching about Microsoft here, for something Claude has been doing forever. I have a git hook that rejects any commit containing the line Co-authored by Claude
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#76Whenever I use Cursor's voice dictation, my prompts get "Thank you" inserted at the end of the sentence.
That happens in most speech to text systems, even Superwhisper, Monologue and Wispr Flow. I read somewhere it comes from training on YouTube audio and happens when there is silence. I guess it depends on the model but most of them are based on Whisper which has this problem
> I read somewhere it comes from training on YouTube audio
Does it also insert "please like & subscribe?"
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#77One 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…
> There was a time that Google cared deeply about UX
Have we been using the same Google?
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Dang, now I wanna call Rusty n Edie's BBS for some reason.
It's the masochism of downloading images at 2400 baud.
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#79A lot of bitching about Microsoft here, for something Claude has been doing forever. I have a git hook that rejects any commit containing the line Co-authored by Claude
Please do share
Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
#80I 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.
> it should get credit for good work, or disdain for bad
Hard disagree. The "credit" it gets is through the form of charging my credit card.
Imagine for a moment that you are a company which hired a human developer to create your app rather than AI. In this case, the developer sold his or her right to credit by way of becoming a paid employee. All credit/rights/etc to the code become the ownership of Company, not the developer.