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

mrcartmeneses

Next it will be Co-authored by Co-Pilot with help from Dominos Pizza

SwellJoe

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

c0balt

Growth hacking at its best /s

Animats

Does that make the code uncopyrightable? Non-human authorship?

holistio

Whenever I use Cursor's voice dictation, my prompts get "Thank you" inserted at the end of the sentence.

2OEH8eoCRo0

If you're angry about this then what are you going to do about it?

preommr

I 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?

Scarbutt

"chat.disableAIFeatures": true

awesome_dude

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.

throwaway81523

Wonder if they're going to claim copyright interest based on inserting that crap.

clutter55561

I got tired of Claude adding their signatures to my commits against my instructions (the settings schema changed at some point), so I added a commit-msg hook that blocks multi-line commits. Easy and works like a charm, and would block this sort of M$ intrusion. What a despicable behaviour from M$.

b4rtaz__

This is really bad.

cozzyd

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.

rsynnott

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 cared deeply about UX. Now, on macOS Google remaps CMD-G in Google Docs to launch some LLM bullshit (EDIT: huh, they may have fixed this; it was definitely doing it a couple of weeks ago), because, after all, it has only had a standard universal meaning on macOS for about three decades, no big deal.

morkalork

Well, that's good news for all the developers working at companies with delusional management proclaiming "100% of code will be written by AI in 6 months"!

ninjahawk1

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 <noreply@github.com> Save and exit Force push the change: git push --force-with-lease

booleandilemma

The day I see it does this is the day I switch to zed, or whatever.

low_tech_love

Isn’t this a kind of “leopards ate my face” situation? I thought we had all “agreed” that letting AI write code and take control of software repositories is good, even if we have no idea what is going on beyond a thin surface layer, because well it’s fast and we can fix it later and lol who needs testing? My customers are my testers. And now it’s suddenly bad because the developer is the customer?

amarant

Microsoft is such a master class in how to make me hate you, quickly.

mister_mort

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?