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?
@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.
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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 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"?
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Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)
What will they think of next?
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?
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