Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 has drawn sharp criticism for automatically adding a “Co-Authored-by: Copilot” tag to Git commits by default, even for some users not actively using Copilot. The ...

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code feature that automatically credited GitHub Copilot in commit metadata even when the AI tool was not used. The March 2026 change drew criticism from ...

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type. GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding ...

A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio ...

GitHub Copilot is an AI chatbot that enables you to write code more efficiently. However, many users have reported that the GitHub Copilot does not work in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. This ...