Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code. The initial change – a pull request – altered VS Code's Git extension to add "Co-authored-by: Copilot" to commits that involved some level of AI assistance. This was done in VS Code 1.110 in early March. The settings change was intended to "[add] the trailer for all AI-generated code, including inline completions." But developers said the AI authorship line got added even when not using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant and when chat features had been disabled . And many expressed dissatisfaction with Microsoft activating the AI notice by default. "The most concerning part is that I had already checked the commit message before committing," wrote one developer in a GitHub community discussion post last week.…