microsoft are so desperate to get copilot numbers up that vscode will now add copilot as a co-author by default

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

RE: https://grrl.me/@soph/116508426964266127

microsoft are so desperate to get copilot numbers up that vscode will now add copilot as a co-author by default

edit: it's already been reverted because people took it about as well as you might expect

edit 2: it was an accident, definitely not a megacorp being evil. allegedly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991835

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

oh wow, it's already been reverted https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/313931

well that answers how well people took it, i guess

[supersingular@chaos.social]

@dysfun I don't think this was the intention behind the change, but it does probably represent the state of QA at Microsoft.

[supersingular@chaos.social]

@dysfun https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991835