Comment by MaKey

19 hours ago

FYI, they changed the default of 'git.addAICoAuthor' to 'chatAndAgent' afterwards: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/312880

So it was 'off' -> 'on' -> 'chatAndAgent'

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nusl  17 hours ago

Changed back or not, this demonstrates that they're either willing to make sweeping changes like this that hurt a massive number of users, or that they're incompetent to the point of not realising the impact of the first change. They'd have had to just blindly make the change, since the original PR was approved and merged within the same minute by the original author (no additional eyes, at least that we can see), or ignore user complaints and make it anyway. Both cases demonstrate terrible stewardship of VSCode.

dbeley  17 hours ago

This should be higher, as this dates from 5 days ago I wonder why OP didn't bother to mention this follow-up

  • kllrnohj  14 hours ago

    To be fair to OP, that follow-up doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere in the discussion on #310226, either. They probably should have left a note about that change before locking the thread.

  • indrora  17 hours ago

    To be honest, I didn't see the follow up. It just incensed me enough that they would do that to begin with.

    Right up there with Zed being pretty open that they siphon your code through their API surface and have a "Just Trust Us Bro" data retention policy, along with no way to turn the collaboration features off.

    - OP