Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author

5•adithyassekhar•1h ago

I don’t even use copilot. Yet, if you are like me and sometimes use the Source Control tab to stage files or manually write commit messages, it automatically appends Copilot as the co author for that commit.

How does anyone at Microsoft/Github thinks this is ok? I don’t even use your AI, this is code I have written myself. This just looks desperate.

Comments

mizhibuilder•1h ago

The problem isn’t “AI in the workflow.” It’s AI claiming authorship by default.

If I didn’t explicitly use Copilot for that commit, adding it as co-author is not assistance, it’s misattribution.

bahadiraydin•47m ago

Good times for being a Vim guy...

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