For about a year, my primary coding agent was goose. Since I worked at Block and served as a Developer Advocate for the project, I was deeply embedded in its ecosystem. I contributed code and provided product feedback that shaped how it functioned. Then, I moved to a company called Entire that provides the infrastructure for the agentic software development lifecycle. To do my job well, I have to
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