VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by Aerolfos on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:56AM (#47994145)

> Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable.

I noticed that as soon as you make a bug report/feature request on VSCode's repo, you instantly get someone's OpenClaw agent with an automated pull request that sometimes wants to change defaults in the main codebase

Looks like AI is really trigger-happy with that, with zero understanding or care that there's thousands of users affected and it's not just one individual's settings.json

Also, the hallucinated PR does not necessarily address the original issue whatsoever, just like this PR. It should have functionality to detect AI-authored code, but whoever made the PR skipped actually doing the hard work and just changed a default to always on, exactly the kind of misunderstanding you see with OpenClaw shotgun PRs

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by zelphirkalt on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:04AM (#47994601)

And then they apparently posted an alibi "I'm sorry" here. Or maybe it is genuine, but the choice is between incompetence and fake "I'm sorry". Where is QA?

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by IshKebab on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:20AM (#47994703)

As far as I know VSCode doesn't really have QA. I'm not sure it even has tests, which makes it very surprising that it works as well as it does!

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by lukan on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:55AM (#47995304)

Because it is dogfood?

(Meaning the devs use it themself, that is great incentive to fix things)

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