alt Hacker NewsChanging the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable. Even if this feature worked correctly, it obviously doesn’t, this should at minimum be a prompt after upgrade to let the user confirm that this is what they want. But honestly should be opt in for those that want it.
To have it silently just start adding marketing copy to git commit messages is pretty bad. To have that added text not be visible to the user in the UI so they can remove it before commit is just much worse.
This kind of thing being released speaks to a greater disfunction over there. Not a good look at all and I am not a Microsoft or AI hater. But my commit messages are not where you move fast and break things
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> Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable.
I noticed that as soon as you make a bug report/feature request on VSCode's repo, you instantly get someone's OpenClaw agent with an automated pull request that sometimes wants to change defaults in the main codebase
Looks like AI is really trigger-happy with that, with zero understanding or care that there's thousands of users affected and it's not just one individual's settings.json
Also, the hallucinated PR does not necessarily address the original issue whatsoever, just like this PR. It should have functionality to detect AI-authored code, but whoever made the PR skipped actually doing the hard work and just changed a default to always on, exactly the kind of misunderstanding you see with OpenClaw shotgun PRs
> Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable
How else is a poor programmer gonna hit their KPIs and get that promo?
> To have it silently just start adding marketing copy to git commit messages is pretty bad. To have that added text not be visible to the user in the UI so they can remove it before commit is just much worse.
This is one of the problems, but it is not only one. To be better, should be:
1. It should be visible in the UI for entering the commit message, to make it clear what it is doing.
2. It should not add such a thing if the Copilot is disabled. (It is mentioned by dmitriv and would hopefully be fixed soon enough)
I do not use Copilot nor any other LLMs nor VS Code, but if the problems are corrected then I think the feature would probably be reasonable.
> Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable.
What does that even mean? The git log exists. Do you mean they should shove the entire git log in the face of every user on every update?
Obviously this change was a massive fuckup, but that sentence makes absolutely no sense.
please no more popups on vscode, im begging you
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Well, the good news is commit messages are some of the most visible thing, and there are no silent modifications that are really possible.
The bad news is - where else have this happened in VS Code?
- A happy user of (n)vim