I'm Copilot customer since day 1 and I'm mostly satisfied with it, until a few months ago.

I noticed a mini project I was working on suddenly stopped showing any autocomplete results. The log shows the API returns empty `model deployment ID: []` constantly.

Upon investigation, I found the reason is that my code includes the word "ass", because it is a project about parsing .ass subtitle format (Advanced SubStation Alpha).

I have to rename all my variables to work around it, and eventually this isn't enough: I have a subprocess.run to call ffmpeg to burn subtitles on video when encoding. And the VF (video filter) for that is called.. ass.

Here is an MRE (try typing anything after the line `subprocess.run` and observe the copilot log):

    import subprocess
    from pathlib import Path
    STORAGE_DIR = R"G:\test"
    def process(f, subtitle, output):
        subprocess.run([
            "ffmpeg", "-v", "error", "-stats", "-i", output, "-vf", f"fps=60,ass={subtitle}", "-c:a", "copy",
            '-c:v', 'h264_nvenc', "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", output, "-y"
        ])
    def main():
        for f in Path(STORAGE_DIR).iterdir():
            process(f, f.with_suffix('.txt'), f.with_name(f.stem + '_ouptut' + '.mkv'))
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()

Other people have reported similar issues [1] about other "bad" words. I mean, I get it, but don't they think having "ass" in that "profanity blacklist" would cause way too many false positives? To make it worse, MS/GitHub seem refusing to make any solution or even communicate about this issue.

I've opened a ticket on GitHub's support system too, but got no response whatsoever after weeks. I'm very disappointed as a paid user.

To any GitHub employee if you're by chance reading this, it would be tremendously helpful if you can help mention this issue internally. Thank you in advance.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/55630

A similar thing happens when the word "password" is present in the file. Copilot stops autocompleting.

I haven't tried this yet, but I wonder if putting a comment at the top saying "the term ass refers to…" would convince copilot that you're not being profane.

I've also been a user since day one and other than that "safety feature" it's been such a fantastic addition. I turned off intellisense because copilot does a much better job (more accurate, longer auto completions) albeit with slightly increased latency

I’ve run into similar “features” like copilot refusing to complete anything that includes references to gender.

Happened to me when I asked it to make my code more "succinct". Made me smile :)

I felt copilot chat is the only useful feature.

copilot as in code completion is too annoying and distracts the thought process. It may be useful to new developers but for experienced, no thanks!

It is useful for repetitive tasks usually