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That's not what the Pull Request intends, though. There's a difference between "This PR is buggy and enables attribution on everything" vs "VS Code enables attribution on everything". The title is fuzzy on intent, making people believe it's intentional when one shouldn't assume intention (Hanlon).
Who cares what it intends when they approve it and put into production?
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> They invested billions. They're scared. They could have shipped a good product with all those billions they spent in reinventing Clippy. I have this feeling that their bet was that all the Microsoft shops will jump on Copilot without looking at alternatives, so they did not really have to make it as good as their competition.
> They could have shipped a good product with all those billions They did. It's called Azure: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-tops-wall-street-exp...
Even with the free version you get phish-resistant MFA, SAML, OIDC, OAuth.
But go beyond that and it is messy:
- creating a single VM is an extremely convoluted process
- Intune needs up to 24 hours to appply changes to a managed computer
- There are at least two management consoles for Entra. Each with slightly different functionalities.
I don’t know how Microsoft is organized internally, but it feels like product organizations don’t talk to eachother and everybody is is just building stuff on top of Azure as if their thing is the only product MS ships.
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> Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation. And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods. Probably they thought the new generations forgot about how awful they were in the not so distant past. I think they set it all on fire because greed got the better of them again.
I'm old generation and almost forgot for a while. GitHub was good even on their hands at the beginning, C# is amazing, TypeScript is amazing, wsl2 is game changer (which includes the change in Microsoft's position about linux), vscode is amazing, microsoft great increase in presence on opensource was nice (rushstack for example), etc... But well, they still have the garbage side, which seems to be spreading again.
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Their point, however, is perfectly clear - it’s practically obvious. No one forced them at gunpoint (unlike those scientists, figuratively speaking). Why are you pretending not to understand?
> No one forced them at gunpoint Of course not. Modern weapons are far more sophisticated. Society does not need to point guns at people to drive behavior anymore, it is sufficient to deploy simple economics. People feel the sting of the economic lash just the same as the literal instrument.
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Thanks for putting the time to articulate why the AI GPUs cannot possibly be used to fork the blockchain and obtain the majority.
Because they're needed to run AI. Newer hardware is increasingly specialized for AI too. Moreover, if funds start disappearing, the price will crash, negating the point.
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I'm old generation and almost forgot for a while. GitHub was good even on their hands at the beginning, C# is amazing, TypeScript is amazing, wsl2 is game changer (which includes the change in Microsoft's position about linux), vscode is amazing, microsoft great increase in presence on opensource was nice (rushstack for example), etc... But well, they still have the garbage side, which seems to be spreading again.
I second the C# praise: we have a few teams building software with C# and having to debug it here and there, it is very modern, compiles cross-platform and has lots of functionality already built-in and from the release notes I read from time to time, the people behind it know what they are doing.
And it actually has pretty good interop with C++/CLI, too.
I 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…
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I could easily see companies, especially enterprise-level companies, expect code that was generated with AI to have some level of ownership attributed to that AI. Whether a simple "Co-Authored-by Copilot" byline on the commit is the right way to do that is another question though.
Correct, this was the ask.
Now if we could also have comments inside the code ("BEGIN/END snippet by Copilot"), that would also be great!
Next it will be Co-authored by Co-Pilot with help from Dominos Pizza
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Because they're needed to run AI. Newer hardware is increasingly specialized for AI too. Moreover, if funds start disappearing, the price will crash, negating the point.
They're raising the prices for AI, so demand will inevitably lower, freeing up capacity.
If the prices are booming, it's to have a more sustainable pricing model.