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- I have a rule for Claude to stop watermarking the commits. I feel exposed when it's doing it and I rewrote the entire Claude assisted commit history after switching from Copilot to Claude.by jb_briant
- This is opt-out dark pattern territory. Git commits are a permanent record of authorship silently injecting a co-author trailer without explicit consent is a trust violation, regardless of intent.by IVski
- The problem isn’t “AI in the workflow.” It’s AI claiming authorship by default.
If I didn’t explicitly use Copilot for that commit, adding it as co-author is not assistance, it’s misattribution.
by mizhibuilder - Maybe this is some form of 'growth hacking'? I.e. they will use the increase in commits cowritten by Copilot as 'proof' that the AI hype is still alive?by legacynl
- This only happens on commits where autocomplete (via Copilot) was used, which I think is on by default.
Still that doesn't seem very reasonable, LLM autocomplete seems like a basic editor feature nowadays.
by bcye - This is crazy, autocomplete changed one variable name for me and now I see:
`Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>`
That is not coauthorship. And if it were, every pre-commit tool that automatically reformats or fixes code should also append themselves as coauthors!
by dhimmel - What a stupid annoying default setting! Here is how to turn it of in v1.117
```json // .vscode/settings.json { "git.addAICoAuthor": "off" } ```
by TurboTimon - UPDATE: It was the inline suggestions. If you use it to fill at least a character or word it will decide that it owns your code now.
I accepted a typo fix in a changelog while correcting it. Appears as tab to autocomplete for those unaware. Still seems like a reach.