this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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[–] plz1@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago

Looks like they are back-tracking, but knowing MS, it won't be fully rolled back, just made slightly less shitty. They locked comments on the PR after the backlash.

Thank you all for your feedback, professional or otherwise. Sorry about the regression. I will work on fixing this in 1.119.

There is a number of issues with the Co-Author functionality:

  • It should never have been enabled when disableAIFeatures is on.
  • It should not add attribution to changes that were not done by AI.
  • We need to make sure it receives a more test coverage before change the default.
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't this mean it's all completely stealable, because things ai make can't be copyrighted or anything?

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

He said AI didn't make it, I would assume more than a Co-Authored would be required to ignore licenses, but that's still a gray area anyways, I think?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 78 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

This is what we call juicing the books

There's a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.

It also makes copilot appear more used *and far more reliable.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 19 points 15 hours ago

There’s a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.

That manager should be removed

I'm so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 11 hours ago

Gross. This reinforces my existing habit of not trying to integrate everything and instead use specific tools for specific functions. That's kinda unix-like of me, right? lol.

I like using the git CLI client in a standalone terminal window, and might still do so even if Microsoft weren't constantly giving me reasons to never even consider changing.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I hate it but honestly most people are probably using that shit and lying about it in commits.

[–] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If this note were added to the commit whenever an LLM were used to author code then this would be a good feature but just silently adding it is so shitty.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

I mean I suspect people use AI to write code but disguise it because they know it will upset others so it’s more likely than not that the commit was authored by AI even if VS Code can’t see it.

Anyone dumb enough to leave that setting on probably doesn’t know what they are doing and probably is using AI.

It’s still shit and misleading though and MS shouldn’t do it. I use VS Codium so I need to make sure it doesn’t happen there too.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Guess someone misconfigured their VSCode?! Seems someone helped them find it.

And seems this is a double-post.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
[–] kungen@feddit.nu 6 points 13 hours ago

Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!

Yep, typical PM stuff. The KPI went up!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Lol 😆

Feels it should be tied to whether the AI features are enabled.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think it isn't in VSCodium

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

VSCodium is the only VSCode I will ever use. Fuck all the Microsoft branded AI bullshit. A few tweaks to a json file is all you need to make Codium work with the Code extension store. Sure, it's against Microslop's ToS but who cares

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

As a vscodium user i can tell you that is not true. I had to debug a c# unit test this week and for the life of me could not get it to work on vscodium. The c# extension cant run in vscodium and the same is true for the debugger. There are alternatives but it just would not attach the debugger when i hit debug tests.

Installed vscode with the c# extension and it just worked, sadly.

Still using vscodium though haha

[–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, I realized a while back the only thing holding me to VSCode was Intellisense, when they deprecated that I switched. Codium is my friend now...

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

Claude code has given its self credit in the commit message since the beginning. I suspect most people turn that off.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

Whoops on the double post, it was meant to go to two separate communities