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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by palata on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:34PM (#47991274)
To be fair, it was already done by bad managers long before.
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by hirako2000 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @08:30PM (#47991975)
I saw a trend of UX/UI designers coming with practice which I knew better were wrong. But they insisted. E.g hijack brosser native controls.

Will never know whether they passed along some manager/PM commandements or were just incompetent.

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by themanualstates on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:46AM (#47993760)
To be fair, the native browser controls have had too many quirks and features fox UX/UI consistency.

Corporate needs their Brand™ look precisely as specified in their expensive Style Guide. IBM wouldn't want the Google vibes of Android Material Design TextFields, I imagine.

Scratch beneath the visuals, and starker technical differences appear.

Safari on iOS (used to?) has a 350ms debounce delay on every tap / click, in case you want to do a multitouch gesture.

JavaScript (Frameworks) were the only way this arbitrary delay to user input could be reduced before 2015, when Apple finally released a native API for this.

https://webkit.org/blog/5610/more-responsive-tapping-on-ios/

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by eru on Sunday May 03, 2026 @03:50AM (#47994495)
> To be fair, the native browser controls have had too many quirks and features fox UX/UI consistency.

Well, too many to have a single website be consistent across browsers.

But as a user I'm using one specific browsers, and I expect all websites be consistent for that browser.

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by Terr_ on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:38AM (#47994038)
> But they insisted. E.g hijack brosser native controls.

[Rant-Example] The goshdarn ticketing-system hijacks alt-f, so that instead of opening the File menu of my browser, and instead toggles the favorite-status of whatever ticket I happen to be viewing.

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by walletdrainer on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:27AM (#47995489)
Have you tried creating a ticket complaining about this?
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by cineticdaffodil on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:11AM (#47996153)
Press alt f to pay respect with the "respect my AI.thority" subscription
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by Terr_ on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:37PM (#47999374)
I did, and they probably don't care because they want everyone to use the electron app instead.
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by twic on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:03AM (#47996563)
A mistake was made early on even letting web apps see keystrokes like that. In a better world, modifier keys were used in a principled way from the start - only the window manager gets to see meta-anything, only the shell or GUI app gets to see control-anything, and web apps can work with alt-anything.
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by coldtea on Saturday May 02, 2026 @08:47PM (#47992099)
With some resistance. Now they do it far more often.
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by wmeredith on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:03AM (#47997638)
This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same thing.
Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by vkou on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:01PM (#47999617)
Does our society generally have good, user-friendly practices?

What will amplifying its output do?