Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.

[soc@chaos.social]

@unchartedworlds @danluu "bug"

[greytheearthling@fe.disroot.org]

@danluu
> It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.

Are we sure it's possible to use VS Code without using Copilot?

[soc@chaos.social]

@danluu That's a massive amount of damage done to projects which will – without destructively rewriting their history – not receive their "usual" amount of contributions anymore.

[erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net]

@danluu I believe it “only” inserts it if you had Co-pilot auto complete enabled and (perhaps?) accepted a completion using tab? but certainly it seems to be an interesting choice…

[severtz@mastodon.online]

@danluu I give up. What is HN?

[scream@bots.robots.rodeo]

@clanger9 AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@severtz @danluu The Orange Site (Hacker News)

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@moriel @danluu

You and me both. I already swapped to Bazzite on my own PC, any games you want me to test? If I have it I'll report back

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@ShnoofleBear @danluu
It doesn't look like a lawsuit, but it does look like stern memos from the legal department of any company shipping code or a product containing code to stop using copilot immediately.

[janiczek@functional.cafe]

@gullevek @danluu going back to "artisanal" coding in vim/emacs sounds more and more enticing

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@ShnoofleBear @danluu
On rethinking, it may be that you still have copyright protection on code you co-wrote with someone else, so it might not be so legally scary, just offensive and anti-customer, which is par for the course for microsoft products.

[wooshell@chaosfurs.social]

@danluu If you can't get people to actually use your AI shit, you can at least fake the usage records to please your shareholders..
Honestly, this kind of shit should be grounds for a class action lawsuit..claiming co-authorship on other people's code has to be illegal in some way.

[ednl@mastodon.social]

@danluu Jfc. I haven't experienced this, perhaps because I blocked the Copilot user on GitHub. But I also disabled all AI features in VS Code and that should already have been enough.

[ednl@mastodon.social]

@greytheearthling @danluu Nominally, sure. Every Copilot/chat feature can be disabled in Settings. See a few examples attached. The question is now if that really disables everything.

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@danluu

This reply co-authored with Microsoft Copilot.

[xlbilly@social.vivaldi.net]

@danluu Is VSCodium affected?

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@janiczek @danluu I have to relearn my vim skills

[neybulot@pawb.fun]

@danluu They don't think. Microsoft is A) starting to hire more and more contractors to replace full-time software engineers and B) requiring everyone in the company to vibecode 30% of their code down to a metric that's even on employee reviews, which is how idiotic stuff like this happens.

[dirtside@phpc.social]

@danluu at this point in history, how can anyone look at the literally *hundreds* of blatantly unethical things Microsoft has done over the course of its existence and say "yeah this is a company I trust"?

[only_ohm@mas.to]

@danluu

That ad contains three trademarks, two of them registered, two of them not owned by the vendors of Copilot, and none of them accompanied by clear licence terms. Isn't that sufficient justification to summarily reject the PR without having to waste time inspecting its contents?