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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by saghm on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:32AM (#47995523)
This is honestly the most concerning part of all of this. You're saying you knew that this exact bug was present up front and still decided to release it?

This basically invalidates the entire premise that it was an innocent mistake. It's impossible for me to believe that you actually thought that people wouldn't care about 100% of their commits being attributed to Copilot even when it was never used. Either you're misconstruing what you caught with the testing beforehand or your entire development process is tainted, because there's no way that a non-evil corporation would see this default behavior and think that people would be fine with it. It seems far more likely you just thought you could get away with it.

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by sinpif on Sunday May 03, 2026 @07:27AM (#47995874)
Agreed, this approach feels like folks at Microsoft still feel they have enough karma to burn. It's way past that.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by lppedd on Sunday May 03, 2026 @07:32AM (#47995907)
I think there is a "ship fast" component here that should be adjusted. Product Management introduced weekly "stable" releases in March, no matter the content.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by spixy on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:54AM (#47995643)
Seems that they released it only in some internal / alpha version.
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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by make3 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:13PM (#47999743)
don't call it a bug, they were intentionally aggressively pushing marketing copy into people's commits.

this was malice or greed

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by saghm on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:49PM (#48013161)
I think so too, but my point is that even according to their own words about what happened, the best possible interpretation is that they didn't mean to do it but knowingly let it happen. I agree that a worse version is more likely, but it's pretty damning when even the ceiling for what they can plausibly claim is "we intentionally didn't bother stopping it once it happened accidentally".
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