- Enabling ai co author by default | Pull Request #310226 - microsoft/vscode (April 2026) - A change was merged to VS Code to add a “Co-authored-by: Copilot” line to commit messages. No one was happy with this. This change has since been reverted in Change default for git.addAICoAuthor to off | Pull Request #313931 - microsoft/vscode
- Behaving as if you were trying to succeed | Overthinking Everything (May 2025) - You need to care about the end result of what you do. If possible you should check whether what you have done has actually worked. If you aren’t able to confirm this, focus on getting things done right to improve your chance of success
- Why Big Tech Performance Reviews Aren’t Meritocratic | Data Science Collective (January 2026) - “The system didn’t eliminate bias. It gave those with power a cleaner, more defensible way to exercise it.”
- Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans | GitHub Blog (April 2026) - GitHub is pausing sign ups to Copilot, introducing new usage limits and removing access to a bunch of AI models. This is due to AI usage intensifying as people use agents to work on more things in parallel