Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
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adithyassekhar
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In for a penny, in for an arm and a leg. You can't use Microslop, Microslop uses you. That's the order of things.
TurboTimon
What a stupid annoying default setting! Here is how to turn it of in v1.117
```json // .vscode/settings.json { "git.addAICoAuthor": "off" } ```
mizhibuilder
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.
adithyassekhar
The thing is it doesn’t even say anywhere this is being done, I only realised it after a PR was raised.
mytydev
It's in yesterday's release notes
Someone1234
It is buried in yesterday's release notes.
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.
sergeivaskov
If Copilot insists on being a co-author for suggesting a comma, I expect it to also take co-responsibility for the bugs it introduces and page itself when the production goes down at 2 AM.
bcye
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.
adithyassekhar
Maybe you are right. I could have sworn this happened without me using autocomplete.
bcye
i tested it right now, if autocomplete is turned off or not used the line doesn't get added. generating a commit msg also doesn't trigger it for some reason.
adithyassekhar
Found the culprit it was the inline suggestions. If you use it to add a single comma to the code it will decide it has part ownership of your commit now.
dgellow
Thanks for sharing. Time to go back to my emacs config from late 2010s…
crazybonkersai
PSA: You can disable it in the settings with the Git: add ai to Co author option
jb_briant
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.
k4rli
That's a great feature though. Vibecoded projects should be easily distinguishable, not only by common patterns preferred by "AI".
deaux
Better start including YoE on commits as well, projects by freshers should be easily distinguishable.
classified
YoE?
dnnddidiej
Years of Experience. I'd put TC instead though.
bahadiraydin
Good times for being a Vim guy...
dnnddidiej
Or a cat/sed guy
yogibear678142
I know right? Ed is so bloated, using your systems memory to hold file contents! When I code I stream via sed for maximum efficiency.
sourcegrift
Hey. What's the least plusing workflow for neovim + rust-analyzer + rust
bahadiraydin
Hey, nowadays this setup is very easy to achieve. You can check out my dotfiles at: https://github.com/BahadirAydin/dotfiles/tree/main/private_d...
"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.
altbdoor
Friendly reminder that all (I sure hope it does all...) the Copilot kerfuffle can be disabled in `chat.disableAIFeatures` flag in the settings.
Grollicus
How does this look like?
bcye
Adds this line to the commit:
Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>
adithyassekhar
In your git commits as “Committed by USERNAME and Copilot”.
dickeeT
it's annoying, but i think most people wouldn't care about this, and microsoft will think this is a good idea because majority of user will not turning it off
ferguess_k
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.
classified
As you can see with GitHub and Windows, lots of people are still using destroyed products that hardly have any competition.
ferguess_k
Yeah but people are starting to migrate away from them.
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.