Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
I gathered from the HN discussion that this "feature" wasn't supposed to ignore whether you'd really used Copilot: apparently there was a bug in the part which was supposed to detect whether you had or hadn't.
Of course even for people who had used it, it's still rude to make the added message be opt-out!
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@danluu Apparently the slopmachines can't be trusted to credit themselves reliably? Go figure. 🤭
One might even suspect this "feature" was intentional: To get more acceptable PRs which were seemingly made with AI and thus confuse people whether they can recognize AI slop.
"Look, this is a perfectly good PR and it was made with AI".
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu secretly modifying the source even when ai slop is turned off and then hiding the changes in the git commit view?
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu
DMCA takedown request as it is fraudulently claiming authorship/copyright? -
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu
One more reason I feel justified in no longer using GitHub -
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu What does this mean for copyrighted code? Wasn't there something like 'if AI is involved, then no copyright'? Somehow this smells like incoming lawsuit...
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu this seems really desperate, to me. Trying to juice their stats either internally, for investors, or both. Is there a better interpretation than as a sign things aren't going well?
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
This makes me want to dump VS Code, even though it doesn't affect me since I do all my git stuff from the command line anyway. Microsoft really does seem to want to drive away their customers. I gave up Visual Studio for Rider already, and probably will switch my desktop at home to some Linux distro once Windows 10 stops being viable for games. But the company I work for is an MS shop, and VS Code is the only viable editor I'm allowed to have on my laptop, so crap like this really get's my dander up
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu Co-authored-by: Kate
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu seems like a good reason to use codeberg I guess?
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu We are living in a world where it takes outrage to make some people be decent.
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I gathered from the HN discussion that this "feature" wasn't supposed to ignore whether you'd really used Copilot: apparently there was a bug in the part which was supposed to detect whether you had or hadn't.
Of course even for people who had used it, it's still rude to make the added message be opt-out!
@unchartedworlds @danluu "bug"
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@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? -
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@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.
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@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…
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu I give up. What is HN?
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@clanger9 AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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@danluu I give up. What is HN?
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This makes me want to dump VS Code, even though it doesn't affect me since I do all my git stuff from the command line anyway. Microsoft really does seem to want to drive away their customers. I gave up Visual Studio for Rider already, and probably will switch my desktop at home to some Linux distro once Windows 10 stops being viable for games. But the company I work for is an MS shop, and VS Code is the only viable editor I'm allowed to have on my laptop, so crap like this really get's my dander up
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@danluu What does this mean for copyrighted code? Wasn't there something like 'if AI is involved, then no copyright'? Somehow this smells like incoming lawsuit...
@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.
