Post by @drahardja@sfba.social

Remember the “Copilot is my coauthor” fiasco that was recently introduced into #VSCode? It was vibe-coded by a product manager, and rubber-stamped by a principal software engineer.

“Three weeks ago, a product manager, Courtney Webster, decided it would be a great feature to switch on these messages by default. So Webster vibe-coded the change!

A Copilot bot reviewed the change, then [Principal Engineer Dmitriy] Vasyura pushed the manager vibe code to production. What developer in 2026 is going to reject their manager’s code?

Webster has a pile of code commits on GitHub. As far as I can tell, they’re almost all vibe coded with Copilot.”

#ai #vibeCoding #slop

via @davidgerard

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/04/microsoft-vs-code-says-copilot-ai-wrote-all-your-code/

Pivot to AI

Microsoft VS Code says Copilot AI wrote all your code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a text editor for computer programming. In versions 1.117 and 1.118, if you use any autocomplete, including tab complete, it marks your code commit with “Co-authored…

#vscode #slop #vibecoding #ai

Glyph

@glyph@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@drahardja @davidgerard feeling really conflicted about featuring this person’s name so heavily in all the reporting. they are probably a PM with a mandate to do this constantly, and the focus *ought* to be on the people issuing the mandates. I mean the work is public and everyone involved is an adult, but still, singling them out like this feels like it might lead to a lot of unhinged harassment.

Glyph

@glyph@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@drahardja @davidgerard like shame is an ineffective tool and usually does more harm than good but I am struggling daily to reconcile this with the fact that this kind of behavior is indeed shameful

Dave Rahardja 🎄

@drahardja@sfba.social · 2 weeks ago

@glyph @davidgerard You have a point, but I consider a PM and a Principal Engineer as having some agency due to their seniority and expertise. They aren’t low-level peons who get pressured to use AI or lose their jobs.

Otherwise, where do you draw the line? Director? VP? Senior VP? CEO? Even the CEO is under pressure from board members. At some point, people are accountable for their choices.

Glyph

@glyph@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@drahardja @davidgerard yeah there’s a reason I phrased this as an uncertainty and a tension and not an admonition — I am not shaming anyone for shaming either, as it were. you’re also not wrong here, but with constant layoffs of even very senior people it’s just hard to know how real any of that power and status is any more.

it all just sucks

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