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

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
143•indrora•1h ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•42m ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958353
mrcartmeneses•42m ago
Next it will be Co-authored by Co-Pilot with help from Dominos Pizza
dessimus•33m ago
More like Carl's Jr.: Fuck you! We're eating.
k8sToGo•17m ago
But only if you watched this 1 min Segment of today's sponsor...

Your free commit today is brought to you by duff beer

IdontKnowRust•12m ago
This will be so true hahaha
Qem•4m ago
Next Microsoft will sue you to get a share of revenues and ownership as co-author, if your product ever makes success.
SwellJoe•40m ago
"Sent from my iPhone" marketing only works if people want everyone to know they're using the product.
djyde•32m ago
However, there's one counterexample: some email clients in the past experienced explosive growth by adding signatures. It was annoying, but it definitely worked.
blaze33•22m ago
Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.
ssl-3•24m ago
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
SwellJoe•14m ago
Dang, now I wanna call Rusty n Edie's BBS for some reason.
SwellJoe•6m ago
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.
sunaookami•20m ago
Does anybody else remember Tapatalk? They did the same with signatures in forums.
k8sToGo•18m ago
Microsoft already does this with their mobile Outlook. Sent by Outlook Android / iOS on the bottom of the message.
c0balt•38m ago
Growth hacking at its best /s
baal80spam•37m ago
But Microsoft promised it'll be better now and will fix everything. Pinky promise!
Animats•37m ago
Does that make the code uncopyrightable? Non-human authorship?
redwall_hp•23m ago
The courts have determined that, yes, and that is the position of the Copyright Office. And the Supreme Court has rejected appeal, so that's the standing precedent.

Realistically, look forward to SOX style audits and having to maintain evidence of how much of a code base has human authorship vs machine generation. Or reject slop.

I can't wait for:

* The first company to do perjury for litigating over a nonexistent copyright for machine generated code.

* The first company to get nailed to the wall for reverse engineering and replicating high profile copyrighted code, like Windows.

Dylan16807•16m ago
If it's actually co authored then you should be fine on copyright.

And of course dumb messages that aren't true won't affect copyright.

holistio•35m ago
Whenever I use Cursor's voice dictation, my prompts get "Thank you" inserted at the end of the sentence.
yNeolh•22m ago
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
2OEH8eoCRo0•34m ago
If you're angry about this then what are you going to do about it?
preommr•32m ago
Turn it off and rage on social media.

If it gets bad enough, look into Zed. Their tagline is literally "your last next editor".

Scarbutt•19m ago
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.
ElFitz•9m ago
> 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).

glitchc•16m ago
Zed currently does not have a revenue stream. Ot's only a matter of time before the same shenanigans ensue.
janice1999•28m ago
Moved to Zed and recommended my team do the same.
preommr•33m ago
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?

majormajor•28m ago
> WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

"Make a great free product so that we can enshittify it later" is an infamous MS playbook. Maybe nothing happened, maybe just the usual MS at work.

glitchc•19m ago
The editor wars never ended, and VSCode has been user hostile since inception. It came with unavoidable telemetry right out the gate.
opan•10m ago
vim and emacs are both still great choices.
Scarbutt•31m ago
"chat.disableAIFeatures": true
awesome_dude•30m ago
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.

low_tech_love•26m ago
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?
JoshTriplett•21m ago
It's a useful warning label for LLMed code. (When an editor isn't gratuitously adding it to non-LLMed code.)
dlivingston•10m ago
It's useful as metadata (like how JPEGs can store the camera model it was taken on, or PDFs contain the program used to generate it), but yes, I don't like LLMs giving themselves co-author credit. I turn this off in Claude Code.
Jtarii•9m ago
GCC isn't making editorial decisions.
cess11•13m ago
The LLM is just a database. Would you be fine if this was done when cribbing stuff from Github, StackOverflow, tutorials and so on, or do you think some databases are more special than others in this regard, and if so, on what merit?
throwaway81523•29m ago
Wonder if they're going to claim copyright interest based on inserting that crap.
cooprh•27m ago
Funny I saw someone confused about this on Twitter this morning. Wasn't it a few weeks ago Microsoft were injecting copilot ads into copilot generated pull requests? And then promised it wouldn't happen again?
clutter55561•27m ago
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__•25m ago
This is really bad.
glitchc•21m ago
Should be the top comment for succintly summarizing the situation.
cozzyd•25m ago
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•25m ago
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, because, after all, it has only had a standard universal meaning on macOS for about three decades, no big deal.

lpcvoid•22m ago
AI is the ultimate grifting tool, grifters gonna grift.
pjc50•20m ago
The only question is "number go up?": will this result in more money from investors or not?
kami23•15m ago
When I've been working on stuff that requires a SSO login, I noticed that it makes, what I considered, hostile anti-user choices in defaulting to tracking pieces of information I didn't want to track and hadn't mentioned.

Fair that I didn't instruct it explicitly to make more pro-user choices, it just seemed to think slurping as much information into the backend was an default intention. Wasted a few more tokens to iterate on it to remove things, but it was IMO interesting enough that I finally submitted feedback around what I imagine is an interesting training problem.

krainboltgreene•10m ago
> And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods.

It's the bourgeoisie dream: A means of production that also does the labor 24/7 and can't complain, infinitely spawnable. Theoretical slavery+, so of course they're throwing everything into the furnace for it.

morkalork•23m ago
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•23m ago
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

lpcvoid•21m ago
Or people could instead not use Microslop software, easy fix for the AI bullshit. But yeah of course you're technically right.
ninjahawk1•5m ago
I like your solution better.
booleandilemma•23m ago
The day I see it does this is the day I switch to zed, or whatever.
low_tech_love•22m ago
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•22m ago
Microsoft is such a master class in how to make me hate you, quickly.
mister_mort•20m ago
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?

pelasaco•18m ago
Wasn’t it discussed here that no copyrights apply to code generated by AI? I’m asking myself whether adding "Co-authored-by: Copilot" means the code is not protected by the GPL, or even allows Microsoft to own your code...
stodor89•18m ago
Adding Copilot as co-author: For when just stealing other people's code doesn't cut it anymore.
sedatk•17m ago
Search for "AICoauthor" in VSCode settings and turn it off.
snehesht•13m ago
To be precise,

"git.addAICoAuthor": "off"

ddkto•12m ago
The best part is that copilot commented on the PR saying that this doesn’t actually change the behaviour, creates inconsistency in the codebase and suggested reverting the change! (This comment seems to have been ignored…)

> The configuration schema default was changed to "all", but the runtime fallback in extensions/git/src/repository.ts still calls config.get('addAICoAuthor', 'off'). This is now out of sync and can lead to unexpected behavior in contexts where the contributed configuration defaults aren't loaded (e.g., some tests/hosts), and it makes the intended default unclear. Update the runtime fallback to match the schema default (or omit the fallback so the contributed default is used).

MkLouis•9m ago
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
rwaksmunski•7m ago
Just when you think they've reached the bottom, they just keep digging.
thombles•5m ago
I saw this the other day and was pretty confused - I prefer to write my own commit messages and wondered if I’d accidentally let the AI do it this time. Nope, just MS changing things behind my back. Sigh.

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