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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
(news.ycombinator.com)
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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The people in that thread who complain and threaten that they are Seriously Considering not trusting Microsoft any more unless they shape up immediately very soon...
If they had any threshold for when they would pass judgement or take any action to switch to alternatives, it would have been passed long ago.
They are just whining until they get distracted and forget about it. They will make the exact same noises the next time something like this happens. And the next, and the next...
I am trying Zed now, I am quite attached to VS Code but my IDE is less dependent than my OS (I am also evaluating Linux distros, I already don't run Windows on my laptops)