The sneaky commit modification is triggered by very modest usage of AI such as auto-completion.

Look, if an agent writes the code and the commit message then adding a Co-authored-by by default is ok. Not even showing it before the commit is made is not, and adding the message when AI was just completing code is not.

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bojan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I genuinely think it's not ok even then. Copilot is a tool, one of many I use. That tool has no business polluting commit messages without my knowledge.

The appended message isn't even adding any new information, as in this day and age a vast majority of commits is probably "co-authored" by an LLM.

	▲	tln 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I should have been clearer, the hidden addition is never ok. If I ask Claude to write a commit message, it will inserted a co-author line (and an ad), but I can see it and disapprove, add a counter instruction to CLAUDE.md etc

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AlienRobot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Glorified autocomplete, syntax reminder and random snippet generator thinks it's co-authoring things.