You probably saw the VS Code 1.117 story: "Co-authored-by: Copilot" silently added to commits by default, including for code that Copilot never wrote. Microsoft reverted it in 1.119. Good.
But the revert is the wrong ending to the right story.
The developer anger was about consent and accuracy both valid. What did not get picked up in the discourse was the architectural question underneath: even when Copilot does write code, a git trailer tells you almost nothing useful. It does not carry the prompt, the model version, the temperature, the insertion timing, the correlation confidence, or any risk context. It just says "an AI tool existed in this editor."
People spend a lot of time preparing for a product launch, but after every campaign, they usually look back and think, "We could have done this better."
Not because they didn't prepare, but because there were things they simply didn't know beforehand.
