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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by kgeist on Saturday May 02, 2026 @10:22PM (#47992702)
Interesting case:

- a project manager vibe-coded the change without thinking it through at all

- the PR was reviewed by an LLM

- an actual engineer gave LGTM without really reviewing the changes, trusting the LLM

Did I get this right?

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by teg4n_ on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:24PM (#47993022)
The LLM actually points out the problem tho
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by isityettime on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:39PM (#47993100)
Maybe the engineer's LLM agent's summary of the GitHub LLM bot's review omitted that warning.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by herrherrmann on Sunday May 03, 2026 @03:03AM (#47994194)
Maybe the GitHub comments didn’t properly load due to the weekly partial outage.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by throwaway277432 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:25AM (#47993327)
>a project manager vibe-coded the change without thinking it through at all

The PMs vibe-coding and having no idea what they're doing isn't even the main issue (although it is pretty bad).

The main issue is: how are the actual engineers supposed to "review" the slop? They probably report to the same PM or are at below in the org chart and might be evaluated by them. Not just at MS, but any company.

Such a conflict of interest would be detrimental to quality anywhere. You wouldn't build a bridge like this, nor should you software.

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by strix_varius on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:42AM (#47993392)
You can't make this shit up.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by duskdozer on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:14AM (#47995422)
The revert commit appears to have also been done by copilot
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