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.
Yes, and yes. Pretty sure the same system is used for PR responses by Intel in their repos. The pattern is exact, but then every now and then you get an obvious human.
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.
Turned this shit off as soon as I saw it. What a bunch of bullshit. So IDEs have had quote completion features for years and now you want to claim that you "co-authored" my work because you suggested an end-quote and I hit tab? Fuck off, tempted to just disable this shit for my whole org when they change the billing model anyways.
Related:
- [2026-05-03T06:59:30Z] PR#313931 (Change default for git.addAICoAuthor to off...)
- [2026-04-15T21:22:12Z] PR#310226 (Enabling ai co author by default...)
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
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.
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.
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.
Yes, if you want something that's not in OpenVSX, you can go on the VS code store on your browser and download the extension as a VSIX file. Then you can add it to Codium manually.
Oh, I'm very much in favour of this actually. If you use slopgen in any part of whatever you're making, it should be labeled. If it was up to me, that would be a feature that you can only turn off by uninstalling copilot.
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 156 pts · 143d
This is what we call juicing the books
There's a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 53 pts · 143d
It also makes copilot appear more used *and far more reliable.
jtrek@startrek.website · 35 pts · 143d
That manager should be removed
I'm so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.
plz1@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 143d
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.
anise@quokk.au · 10 pts · 142d
am I going insane or does their response sound exactly the same as an LLM justifying a mistake?
plz1@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 142d
I'm betting it is
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Yes, and yes. Pretty sure the same system is used for PR responses by Intel in their repos. The pattern is exact, but then every now and then you get an obvious human.
Zink@programming.dev · 23 pts · 143d
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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 142d
Doesn't this mean it's all completely stealable, because things ai make can't be copyrighted or anything?
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 142d
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?
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 142d
Turned this shit off as soon as I saw it. What a bunch of bullshit. So IDEs have had quote completion features for years and now you want to claim that you "co-authored" my work because you suggested an end-quote and I hit tab? Fuck off, tempted to just disable this shit for my whole org when they change the billing model anyways.
artwork@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 142d
Related:
- [
2026-05-03T06:59:30Z] PR#313931 (Change default for git.addAICoAuthor to off...)- [
2026-04-15T21:22:12Z] PR#310226 (Enabling ai co author by default...)hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 9 pts · 143d
Guess someone misconfigured their VSCode?! Seems someone helped them find it.
And seems this is a double-post.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 143d
This is the default now: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 15 pts · 143d
Lol 😆
Feels it should be tied to whether the AI features are enabled.
kungen@feddit.nu · 11 pts · 143d
Yep, typical PM stuff. The KPI went up!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 9 pts · 143d
I think it isn't in VSCodium
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 22 pts · 143d
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 · 5 pts · 142d
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 · 4 pts · 142d
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...
LarsIsCool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 142d
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/313931 Now not anymore
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 143d
Whoops on the double post, it was meant to go to two separate communities
Jason2357@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 143d
Claude code has given its self credit in the commit message since the beginning. I suspect most people turn that off.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 143d
I hate it but honestly most people are probably using that shit and lying about it in commits.
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 142d
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 pts · 142d
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.
arschflugkoerper@feddit.org · 5 pts · 142d
Is it possible to use VSCodium while, for a lack of a better word, pirating extensions from their store?
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 140d
Yes, if you want something that's not in OpenVSX, you can go on the VS code store on your browser and download the extension as a VSIX file. Then you can add it to Codium manually.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 142d
Oh, I'm very much in favour of this actually. If you use slopgen in any part of whatever you're making, it should be labeled. If it was up to me, that would be a feature that you can only turn off by uninstalling copilot.