YHK - yet another hacker news clone

23 points adithyassekhar 4 hours ago 16 comments

I don’t even use copilot. Yet, if you are like me and sometimes use the Source Control tab to stage files or manually write commit messages, it automatically appends Copilot as the co author for that commit.

How does anyone at Microsoft/Github thinks this is ok? I don’t even use your AI, this is code I have written myself. This just looks desperate.

mizhibuilder 3 hours ago | parent

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.

adithyassekhar 1 hour ago | parent

The thing is it doesn’t even say anywhere this is being done, I only realised it after a PR was raised.

bahadiraydin 3 hours ago | parent

Good times for being a Vim guy...

sourcegrift 2 hours ago | parent

Hey. What's the least plusing workflow for neovim + rust-analyzer + rust

Grollicus 1 hour ago | parent

How does this look like?

adithyassekhar 1 hour ago | parent

In your git commits as “Committed by USERNAME and Copilot”.

bcye 55 minutes ago | parent

Adds this line to the commit:

Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>

jb_briant 1 hour ago | parent

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.

k4rli 1 hour ago | parent

That's a great feature though. Vibecoded projects should be easily distinguishable, not only by common patterns preferred by "AI".

deaux 24 minutes ago | parent

Better start including YoE on commits as well, projects by freshers should be easily distinguishable.

bcye 1 hour ago | parent

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.

adithyassekhar 51 minutes ago | parent

Maybe you are right. I could have sworn this happened without me using autocomplete.

bcye 47 minutes ago | parent

i tested it right now, if autocomplete is turned off or not used the line doesn't get added. generating a commit msg also doesn't trigger it for some reason.

adithyassekhar 23 minutes ago | parent

Found the culprit it was the inline suggestions. If you use it to add a single comma to the code it will decide it has part ownership of your commit now.

adithyassekhar 21 minutes ago | parent

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.

altbdoor 6 minutes ago | parent

Friendly reminder that all (I sure hope it does all...) the Copilot kerfuffle can be disabled in `chat.disableAIFeatures` flag in the settings.