You are right about the current implementation, but the title of the post and what the other person is referring to is the original version. A product manager at Microsoft opened a PR and then an engineer merged it in and that PR caused it to put “co-authored by Copilot” on every commit made through VS Code, regardless of Copilot usage.
A few hours after the outrage started, the developer showed up and said the intention was only for Copilot generated code and that a mistake had been made (the statement you are referring to). Then he fixed it.
We’re stuck in the outrage loop where someone who missed the whole thing sees something about the incident and posts it in an outrage and then people read that and get angry and post it in other communities. Everyone is talking about how Microslop wants to steal your code instead of the actual problem of product managers at Microsoft using copilot to implement code changes and then a software engineer merging it and it being released without testing.
You are right about the current implementation, but the title of the post and what the other person is referring to is the original version. A product manager at Microsoft opened a PR and then an engineer merged it in and that PR caused it to put “co-authored by Copilot” on every commit made through VS Code, regardless of Copilot usage.
A few hours after the outrage started, the developer showed up and said the intention was only for Copilot generated code and that a mistake had been made (the statement you are referring to). Then he fixed it.
We’re stuck in the outrage loop where someone who missed the whole thing sees something about the incident and posts it in an outrage and then people read that and get angry and post it in other communities. Everyone is talking about how Microslop wants to steal your code instead of the actual problem of product managers at Microsoft using copilot to implement code changes and then a software engineer merging it and it being released without testing.
Also working as intended sadly.