Microsoft's 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' Tag: Unpacking the Strategic Play for AI Dominance in VS Code The persistent insertion of 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' into commit messages within VS Code—often irrespective of GitHub Copilot's active contribution to specific changes—is far from a benign engineering detail. It represents a calculated, multi-faceted strategic maneuver by Microsoft, signaling a pr
Hey dev.to! Maksim here again, author of the previous article "From Idea to MVP: Building a Classified Platform in Serbia" about Rsale.net, a classified platform for Serbia. In that post I described the stack: Next.js 15 + React 19 + ASP.NET Core microservices + AI translation. A few months later, the frontend has been fully rewritten on SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 (runes). The Next.js codebase is gon