Post #2010501

God damn it! Turns out VSCode adds COPilot as author to your commit messages by default! Ha-ha-ha-ha, it can't get any better than this! 🤣 The initial change – a pull request – altered VS Code's Git extension to add "Co-authored-by: Copilot" to commits that involved some level of AI assistance. This was done in VS Code 1.110 in early March. The settings change was intended to "[add] the trailer for all AI-generated code, including inline completions." But developers said the AI authorship line got added even when not using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant and when chat features had been disabled. And many expressed dissatisfaction with Microsoft activating the AI notice by default. Microsoft fixes VS Code after Copilot credited human code • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/microsoft_reverses_ai_credit_grab/