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  3. Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.

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  • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

    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?

    gullevek@famichiki.jpG This user is from outside of this forum
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    @danluu Oh lovely enshittification

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    • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

      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?

      dngrs@chaos.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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      wrote last edited by
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      @davidgerard ⬆️ llmao of the month

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      • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

        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?

        madduci@mastodon.socialM This user is from outside of this forum
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        #47

        @danluu another reason to stick using the 'git' command from CLi directly

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        • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

          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?

          ohmrun@indieweb.socialO This user is from outside of this forum
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          #48

          @danluu
          Will it do this through the terminal, do you know?
          I've never used the vscode git tools.

          (edit) I don't know what sort of sauce they inject into their terminal sessions.

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          • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

            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?

            bms48@mastodon.socialB This user is from outside of this forum
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            @danluu I am so glad I steered clear of this veritable pile of garbage.

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            • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

              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?

              omegapolice@hachyderm.ioO This user is from outside of this forum
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              @danluu Apparently the slopmachines can't be trusted to credit themselves reliably? Go figure. 🤭

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              • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                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?

                unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzU This user is from outside of this forum
                unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzU This user is from outside of this forum
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                wrote last edited by
                #51

                @danluu

                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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                • omegapolice@hachyderm.ioO omegapolice@hachyderm.io

                  @danluu Apparently the slopmachines can't be trusted to credit themselves reliably? Go figure. 🤭

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                  glitzersachen@hachyderm.io
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                  @OmegaPolice @danluu

                  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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                  • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                    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?

                    dec_hl@mastodon.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @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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                    • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                      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?

                      vampirdaddy@chaos.socialV This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @danluu
                      DMCA takedown request as it is fraudulently claiming authorship/copyright?

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                      • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                        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?

                        infosec812@foojay.socialI This user is from outside of this forum
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                        wrote last edited by
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                        @danluu
                        One more reason I feel justified in no longer using GitHub

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                        • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                          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?

                          shnooflebear@curly.catS This user is from outside of this forum
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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...

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                          • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                            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?

                            rndeon@cosocial.caR This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @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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                            • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                              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?

                              moriel@chaosfem.twM This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @danluu

                              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@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                                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?

                                thejessiekirk@ohai.socialT This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @danluu Co-authored-by: Kate 👍

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                                • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                                  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?

                                  june@mastodon.catgirl.cloudJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  @danluu seems like a good reason to use codeberg I guess?

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                                  • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                                    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?

                                    khleedril@cyberplace.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    @danluu We are living in a world where it takes outrage to make some people be decent.

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                                    • unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzU unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz

                                      @danluu

                                      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!

                                      soc@chaos.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      @unchartedworlds @danluu "bug" 😅

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                                      • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                                        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?

                                        greytheearthling@fe.disroot.orgG This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        wrote last edited by
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                                        @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?
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                                        • danluu@mastodon.socialD danluu@mastodon.social

                                          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?

                                          soc@chaos.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @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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