Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)
You can ask Copilot to create a pull request from many places, including GitHub Issues, the agents panel, Copilot Chat, the GitHub CLI, and agentic coding tools and IDEs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
It looks like the pull requests were authored by humans, then edited by the bot. I use codeberg, not github, so I'm not that familiar with the service. Does github have some kind of opt-in/opt-out llm editor feature, or is the bot just going around editing random pull requests?
Yeah, and the worst part is that submitting the PR is trivial. You just offload the reviewing work onto the maintainer and then feed the review comments back into the AI. Effectively, you're making the maintainer talk to the AI, by going through you as a middleman, a.k.a. completely wasting their time.
Enshitification so soon? And the bubble hasn't burst yet? I know it's all a matter of time before I ask AI for FOSS software recommendations and it tries to upsell me on some cloud-subscription bullshit that "addresses all my requirements" and comes with "award winning 24/7 support".
someone with a corner office in redmond reminded someone else that shareholders expect to see an immediate return on their $100+ billion 'investment' in this shit.
They already came out to say "we're sowwy" and took it back after the backlash
We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on any PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.
We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky.
This is just the average Atlassian or Slack experience coming to GitHub. You're just trying to do your job and the platform is constantly trying to push you to use services of advertisers.
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in reply to db0 • • •It's not a bug.. It's promoting Raycast. The initial link goes to the github docs docs.github.com/en/copilot/how…
Which again points to raycast.com/
Asking GitHub Copilot to create a pull request - GitHub Docs
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in reply to tracyspcy • • •No, so it's still just github copilot code review (bot). docs.github.com/en/copilot/con…
Which is embedding this link of Raycast. Meaning Raycast is paying Microsoft for sure to get included in the bot comments or pr descriptions.
About GitHub Copilot code review - GitHub Docs
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i still use devdocs.io - that’s my goto.
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