alt Hacker NewsTell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
I don’t even use copilot. Yet, if you are like me and sometimes use the Source Control tab to stage files or manually write commit messages, it automatically appends Copilot as the co author for that commit.
How does anyone at Microsoft/Github thinks this is ok? I don’t even use your AI, this is code I have written myself. This just looks desperate.
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PSA: You can disable it in the settings with the Git: add ai to Co author option
This only happens on commits where autocomplete (via Copilot) was used, which I think is on by default.
Still that doesn't seem very reasonable, LLM autocomplete seems like a basic editor feature nowadays.
The problem isn’t “AI in the workflow.” It’s AI claiming authorship by default.
If I didn’t explicitly use Copilot for that commit, adding it as co-author is not assistance, it’s misattribution.
I have a rule for Claude to stop watermarking the commits. I feel exposed when it's doing it and I rewrote the entire Claude assisted commit history after switching from Copilot to Claude.
Friendly reminder that all (I sure hope it does all...) the Copilot kerfuffle can be disabled in `chat.disableAIFeatures` flag in the settings.
Good times for being a Vim guy...
It has some value when you want to do sketchy things -- oh my AI ate my commit. /s
BTW I'm glad MSFT is aggressively pushing AI into VSCode. Maybe they will destroy VSCode in the process, just like Windows -- or at least give other smaller guys some breathing spaces.
Please do, MSFT.
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UPDATE: It was the inline suggestions. If you use it to fill at least a character or word it will decide that it owns your code now.
I accepted a typo fix in a changelog while correcting it. Appears as tab to autocomplete for those unaware. Still seems like a reach.