Tell 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. |
I accepted a typo fix in a changelog while correcting it. Appears as tab to autocomplete for those unaware. Still seems like a reach.
```json // .vscode/settings.json { "git.addAICoAuthor": "off" } ```
sudo apt autoremove --purge code
[1] disclaimer for those used to copy-pasting anything they find on the internet: sudo apt autoremove --purge <package> [<package> ...] removes software packages and their configuration files. Only use this if you know what you're doing.
`Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>`
That is not coauthorship. And if it were, every pre-commit tool that automatically reformats or fixes code should also append themselves as coauthors!
Still that doesn't seem very reasonable, LLM autocomplete seems like a basic editor feature nowadays.
If I didn’t explicitly use Copilot for that commit, adding it as co-author is not assistance, it’s misattribution.
Their whole marketing department probably.
"Mason" plugin makes it easy to install LSPs, formatters, debuggers locally and built-in LSP integration is seamlessly working currently. (Look at lsp.lua)
There are also language-specific plugins but I'd suggest start with the ones I recommended to you first. It should cover your needs 99% of the time.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>
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.
They have "highlight" links to "Remote control" and "Codebase search", but not to "Copilot added as a Git co-author by default" which is right between the two. Something, that alters how commits work, and if you skip the Remote Control section, you won't see it.
They knew what they were doing. This is like "Sent from an iPhone" levels of nuisance default advertising.