It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. At least with open-source, you can fork it and remove the "features" or point your agent to it and have it write the feature in your tech stack.
Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just replaced it the other day.
Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!
steve1977 1 hours ago [-]
It is, but Codeberg is only for free and open source projects.
sumuyuda 49 minutes ago [-]
Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.
ahartmetz 8 minutes ago [-]
You are free to host your own instance for commercial software.
Brosper 1 hours ago [-]
It's baked in literally into every coding tutorial and is kind of industry standard, like JIRA. Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.
bayindirh 4 minutes ago [-]
> kind of industry standard
...for now.
> like JIRA
is not an industry standard. It's a widely used software by some folks. I used it in the past, not using now, for example.
> Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.
Does Microsoft understand objection and negative feedback to experiments?
- No.
- Remind me in three days.
ahartmetz 6 minutes ago [-]
Fuck the industry standard. That is how industry standards change.
By the way, most pre-industry-standard FOSS projects still have their own infrastructure. I do find it disappointing that Rust is on GitHub.
officialchicken 22 minutes ago [-]
I must have a really really outdated version of K+R C.
raincole 1 hours ago [-]
A few decades? Its competitors are not magically immune to this kind of spam.
jruohonen 1 hours ago [-]
> Its competitors are not magically immune to this kind of spam.
Sure; a platform is a platform is a platform. As for predictions, it is interesting to see whether self-hosting and smaller self-managed infrastructures will gain more traction again.
> Connect Copilot coding agent with Jira, Azure Boards or Linear to delegate work to Copilot in one click without leaving your project management tool.
> Send tasks to Copilot coding agent from Slack and Teams to turn conversations into code. Copilot posts an update in your thread when it's finished.
Looks like MS really want to "give tips" about their new integrations.
esperent 39 minutes ago [-]
Honestly, it being a "tip" or "ad" is exactly the same.
What I mean is that even if I take that at face value and accept that it's not an ad, and I can just about see from a certain level of corporate brainwashing how one could believe that, it's still completely unacceptable.
plastic041 1 minutes ago [-]
I think it's just an ad. It's a bad kind of one because 1) it disguises itself as a tip 2) makes people to think if it's an ad for Raycast or other services, when actually it's just promoting itself.
lwhi 6 minutes ago [-]
Yep, the fact they're altering repo content with advertising is wholly unacceptable.
skywhopper 6 minutes ago [-]
It’s a spot that will easily be replaced with paid ads, for sure. Not sure why it wouldn’t be better to just inject this sort of message into the UI instead of editing the PR text itself. (Except that the team implementing it probably couldn’t get the UI team to agree.)
paweladamczuk 34 minutes ago [-]
I was recently running Copilot CLI in a sandbox on autopilot mode and it kept overriding git config to put only "GitHub Copilot" as commit author instead of my name. Strongly worded instructions weren't helping, I had to resort to the permission system to change this behavior.
I wonder if this is consistent with their terms of service. I mean, maybe they DO take all the responsibility for the code I generate and push in this manner?
jonathanstrange 3 minutes ago [-]
It's possible they are safeguarding for possible future changes of copyright law that would give Microsoft copyright over all Copilot contributions. This may sound paranoid but, as far as I know, exactly who counts as an "AI operator", how much authorship an "AI operator" has, and who gets copyright, or whether AI contributions are even in the public domain, are legally untested and unclear issues.
khvirabyan 2 hours ago [-]
Just thinking, could it be that your coworker used Raycast to spin up a codex to review and fix the typo on the PR? And that comment was added by Raycast?
I doubt it. I noticed a few of these comments too on our PR's. We did ask copilot for a review ton GitHub (we just add copilot as a reviewer) but not through Raycast.
thombles 24 minutes ago [-]
Oof. Why can’t it just do its one job? My interest level in trying these agents has gone from lukewarm to zero.
crimsoneer 1 hours ago [-]
Yes, it seems very unlikely this is Copilot rather than Raycast, short of some very unexpected weirdness. I cling to that hope, anyway.
connorgurney 1 hours ago [-]
Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…
So I think they’re injecting this as a tip on using Copilot, that just happens to be their integration with Raycast.
I have no idea what their actual partnership with Raycast looks like, maybe this is part of what they offered them? But it’s not a traditional link to another product ad like it appears to be from Raycast being a link.
heavyset_go 57 minutes ago [-]
It's time to make some money with Copilot and one way to do that is with partnerships.
GitHub's docs and blog make use of and feature Raycast, and I'm willing to bet that's the result of a partnership, and not because someone writing docs and blog posts happens to think Raycast is great and keeps bringing it up.
tonyedgecombe 47 minutes ago [-]
The same way Google advertisers other organisations products.
WD-42 3 hours ago [-]
Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr descriptions is the only way without risking another 9 of downtime?
I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.
flogy 2 hours ago [-]
Are we sure this actually is originating from MS Copilot itself? Technically I believe it would be possible to smuggle ads into PRs using prompt injection too.
oefrha 2 hours ago [-]
If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it. /s
(That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.)
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post_below 3 hours ago [-]
Assuming this isn't a hoax, this seems like a huge, probably unintentional, mistake by MS.
If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.
I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
altairprime 3 hours ago [-]
That’s a really tasteful Juno Mail footer implementation for a mistake. If the AI self-invented it on a lark, good job, but it reads very strongly like someone intended it.
chrismorgan 2 hours ago [-]
How could you implement something like this by accident?
rhet0rica 2 hours ago [-]
That's a good question! I'm sure we'll find out eventually.
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sheept 2 hours ago [-]
One feasible scenario could be that they are working on/experimenting with ads, and it was put behind a feature flag, but for whatever reason it was inadvertently ignored
chrismorgan 20 minutes ago [-]
That’s not implementing it by accident, that’s deliberate. In such a scenario perhaps the deployment was a mistake, but if you don’t write the malware in the first place, it can’t be deployed. (Probably. This is LLM stuff we’re talking about.)
(Yes, this is malware. It’s incontrovertibly adware, and although some will argue that not all adware is malware, this behaviour easily meets the requirements to be deemed malicious.)
It is said, never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot. Apply something similar here.
bigyabai 2 hours ago [-]
LLMs aren't known for being super deterministic.
mathieudombrock 1 hours ago [-]
LLMs are determistic. Just like everything else computers are capable of doing.
Commercial front-ends just hide the random seed parameters.
kortilla 39 minutes ago [-]
Distributed float math is not deterministic without introducing total operations ordering and destroying performance
tossandthrow 2 hours ago [-]
It is likely not a hoax and likely very intentional.
If you look at the positioning, someone has definitely justified that this is benign and a reasonable place to have an ad added in.
ccppurcell 2 hours ago [-]
Not a hoax, you can search GitHub prs for this string and find many hits.
goodusername 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah, would be good to have confirmation that this happened to others as well.
How long before the LLM makes sponsored decisions in the actual implementation?
"It looks like the user wants to add a database, I've gone ahead and implemented the database using today's sponsor: MongoDB"
tossandthrow 2 hours ago [-]
Likely already happening.
nubinetwork 1 hours ago [-]
To be fair, Gemini did try to get me to buy some nucleo144s recently...
(sure, I was working on something embedded, and asked for a recommendation, but it seemed quite intent that it wanted me to use that specific board)
pinkmuffinere 2 hours ago [-]
I think they want the free advertisement, like Apple with its “sent from iPhone” addendums. But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful, and significantly shorter. If they just left it at “edited with copilot” I think it would be tolerable
politelemon 1 hours ago [-]
> But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful,
No, it is still an advert, and not useful in the least.
masswerk 23 minutes ago [-]
Back in the day, it was useful, as in, "Expect awkward phrasing and unintended effects of autocorrection, because mobile device. This message doesn't necessarily reflect the intent of the sender." (Considerate users would/could edit the signature to something w/o a product name in it.) Nowadays, this is pretty much the norm and no explicit warning ist required anymore.
computomatic 2 hours ago [-]
I don't think the issue is the sign-off so much as that an existing PR was edited. Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered. But it won't edit an existing PR, and it won't sign off if I simply ask it not too (which I've automated). Editing any PR it touches - including one authored by someone else - is downright rude.
marcus_holmes 1 hours ago [-]
> Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered
Not only unbothered, but genuinely appreciative of the notification.
supernes 1 hours ago [-]
"Sent from iPhone" doesn't contain a call to action, and doesn't exalt the features of the product.
silisili 2 hours ago [-]
That's exactly where my mind went. It's zero percent more insulting to me than 'sent from my iPhone.'
If you don't want copilot garbage in your PRs, maybe don't use copilot to create or edit them?
winrid 2 hours ago [-]
It already does that, too, with the co-author
pavo-etc 1 hours ago [-]
I would argue that is a net positive, it is valuable to know if a language model was involved enough to be committing itself.
simonw 2 hours ago [-]
Which Copilot was this? There are a bunch of different products that share that name now.
SchemaLoad 2 hours ago [-]
Microsoft has had a lot of naming blunders in the past but this has to be their worst. Copilot is currently, a tool to review PRs on github, the new name for windows cortana, the new name for microsoft office, a new version of windows laptop/pc, a plugin for VS code that can use many models, and probably a number of other things. None of these products/features have any relation to each other.
So if someone says they use Copilot that could mean anything from they use Word, to they use Claude in VS Code.
protocolture 2 hours ago [-]
>Microsoft has had a lot of naming blunders in the past but this has to be their worst.
Nah I still rate "Windows App" the Windows App that lets you remotely access Windows Apps. I hate it to death, its like a black hole that sucks all meaning from conversations about it.
ValentineC 2 hours ago [-]
"Microsoft Remote Desktop" was such a good and distinct name. RIP.
hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago [-]
It’s probably a useful feature: if it’s named copilot, assume it’s slop and avoid it.
Obnoxious ads in LLM output was my only 2026 prediction. But I expected OpenAI to get there first and wasn't sure whether the AI companies would first add traditional ad boxes or go straight for blighted responses.
napo 2 hours ago [-]
I wonder if 1) the PR was created using Raycast and this is the model signing its PR, or 2) if there was some prompt injection done at some point.
Either of these options would still be bad, but here the author suggests that it's just copilot that now just injects ads in its output.
pavo-etc 1 hours ago [-]
I don't know how Raycast could run on the GitHub servers, but a third option could be dataset poisoning. Hostile raycast advertising campaign
pabrams 2 hours ago [-]
Why are you "summoning copilot" to correct a typo?
shafyy 12 minutes ago [-]
Because people using LLMs get lazy and can't event type normal text themselves anymore.
MattGaiser 2 hours ago [-]
I actually like that I don't have to leave Github to deal with various feedback, especially if I switched branches already to do other work.
deredede 53 minutes ago [-]
GitHub (still) allows you to edit files directly in the browser without using AI.
Whatever the reason for the inclusion was here, the general problem is much bigger. People / companies / products can influence the direction of AI answers to put them in a better light and to be recommended more often. This isn't limited to just products even.
hackable_sand 18 minutes ago [-]
What does AI have to do with it?
SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago [-]
If not on the surface, we’re all deep down aware that an initial era of an advertising-free new technology is once again almost over.
See you on neural links before “sponsored thoughts”.
bryanhogan 1 hours ago [-]
It's already over, the problem is the missing transparency. With an LLM you have no idea what influenced the answer, and there is no good way to show it to the user.
ZeroGravitas 50 minutes ago [-]
Claude will add itself as a contributor to a PR, which I consider an ad.
baliex 35 minutes ago [-]
To play devil’s advocate^, wouldn’t it be plagiarism if it didn’t?
^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.
starkeeper 51 minutes ago [-]
This is off the hook negligence and abuse they are training ads in on purpose now and think it's cool. We are doomed until it is all open source and only open source.
shevy-java 9 minutes ago [-]
I have a somewhat similar problem with github issue templates. They automatically stuff I don't care about or would propose and structure things in ways I don't like. Granted, I can edited this away, but it requires extra time and makes filing issues more work than before. Biggest case in point is the "I will adhere to the Code of Conduct". In general I do not care about CoCs and it is fascinating how CoCs leak into everywhere for some so-called "open source" projects. They don't seem to understand the issue when the licence does not require a CoC; even then the issue is not about the CoC in and by itself (though I also find them pointless), but that extra content is automatically added to issue templates in general, CoCs just being one of many spam-options. And I also recall some donation-ads that are automatically added too - I have no problem when projects request financial support, but if I file an issue then the issue is about the content of the issue, not about anything else.
simonjgreen 39 minutes ago [-]
So does Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Albeit more subtle, but they are hardly shy about it
mememememememo 46 minutes ago [-]
I miss the good old days whem there were "hire me" ads in NPM installs.
pants2 3 hours ago [-]
Was Raycast bought by GitHub or something? Why would it be advertising for Raycast?
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rmnclmnt 1 hours ago [-]
Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?
wiseowise 43 minutes ago [-]
Decision time, Western man: will you let the “tehe, just a miwtake xsxd UwU” slide or will you do something about? This is just a first pebble.
applfanboysbgon 36 minutes ago [-]
“tehe, just a miwtake xsxd UwU” was good enough to justify killing 150 schoolchildren. This is not the first or frankly even a remotely relevant milestone to anything, but even if it were, there's a 0% chance it would move the needle on anything considering what already gets excused. Anything is fine if you call it an accident.
raincole 2 hours ago [-]
Is Raycast even a product of Microsoft? If not, are we witnessing the first large scale prompt injection abuse?
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oakpond 2 hours ago [-]
I notice this kind of "Sent from iPhone"-type spam with other AI tools too. It's awful.
I'm so tired of what initially looks like a perfect normal communication between two people, only to find that some third party has inserted itself like a parasite to exploit and extract human attention. That's why I use our sponsor, nord vpn ...
hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago [-]
It was only a matter of time.
Sent by my iPhone using tapatalk
idkwhatimdoing2 3 hours ago [-]
Its like microsoft wants to be google, except its very intrusive.
time is money, save both. try ramp.
Surac 2 hours ago [-]
as a non native speaker here please explain the meaning of PR to me.
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hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago [-]
Pull request, which is a request to merge changes in a git repository.
Or (not in this case) public relations , which is an interface with how the public views your product, service or company. In this case, copilot adding advertising into git pull requests is bad public relations for Microsoft, but the article author is referring to pull request as PR
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crvdgc 49 minutes ago [-]
People, we just solved the LLM watermarking problem.
isoprophlex 1 hours ago [-]
Satya "please don't say slop" Nadella eat your heart out. Magnificent amounts of value are truly being added by this tech.
I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
daemin 3 hours ago [-]
Using a LLM to fix a spelling mistake is retardedly lazy.
Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
onion2k 3 hours ago [-]
Using a LLM to fix a spelling mistake is retardedly lazy.
If you do it manually, sure.
If you have an agent watching for code changes and automatically opening PRs for small fixes that don't need a human-in-the-loop except for approving the change, it's the opposite of lazy. It eliminately all those tedious 1 point stories and let's the team focus on higher value work that actually needs a person to think about it.
Given time all small changes will be done this way, and eventually there won't be a person reviewing them.
pabrams 2 hours ago [-]
That scenario doesn't require any explicit "summoning", and if there's a human in the loop approving the change, certainly they can fix the typo themself.
ex-aws-dude 2 hours ago [-]
Sounds like a great use of energy and tokens, not overkill at all
In fact I don't even use Ctrl + F anymore and instead just use Claude for all my searches
onion2k 43 minutes ago [-]
Sounds like a great use of energy and tokens, not overkill at all
As much as AI using a lot of energy, having something that fixes issues in the background is very likely to be a net saving if you consider the number of users who fail to complete a task due to the bug and have to either wait in a broken state or retry later.
It's probably using less energy than a person fixing the issue too. That's a guess though.
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hrmtst93837 24 minutes ago [-]
sed fixes typos faster. The absurd part is watching devs burn prod tokens on glorifed autocorrect, wait through LLM lag for a spelling fix, and then act shocked when the output comes back as word salad with a coupon code glued to the end.
LeoPanthera 3 hours ago [-]
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charcircuit 2 hours ago [-]
This looks like an ad for only Raycast which does not appear to be affiliated with Microsoft or GitHub at all so blaming Copilot or GitHub here is not justified.
Which does show that this is affiliated with GitHub unlike what I thought. There are no mentions of this string in a code repository on GitHub (including the Raycast copilot extention).
I'm not a fan of LLM's injecting themselves into PR/commit content. If you use multiple models, basically whichever one is operating git gets all the credit. But, even if you wrote all the code yourself, and just submitted the PR with Claude Code (or whatever) it would attempt to take credit for the changes.
I currently have rules in all of my skill files forbidding models from advertising themselves or taking credit.
Seriously? Dont they want their system to succeed?
I cant think of a better way of alienating the target customer than this.
with 3 hours ago [-]
Everyone is doing this now. Granted, on Codex / Claude Code, you can disable it, it’s not the default to have it disabled. For some reason on Cursor, they keep shoving the “Made with Cursor” into my PR description despite me disabling attribution, which looks really stupid on a work PR.
I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
annie511266728 2 hours ago [-]
I think people read it as cheap advertising because a PR isn't really the tool's output, it's team communication.
A little "made with X" in your own draft is one thing. Putting branding into a PR your coworkers have to read is another.
MattGaiser 2 hours ago [-]
Post the trajectory if this is real.
gpvos 1 hours ago [-]
What do you mean with trajectory? Also, a simple github search will show you many hits for the Raycast text, proving that this is quite real.
MattGaiser 1 hours ago [-]
The path of reasoning the agent took that led it to generate the output. The GitHub search bits got posted after my comment, so while it is clearly real, it just seems injected by Raycast.
pavo-etc 1 hours ago [-]
This is real. I do not have access to the path of reasoning, this ran through the GitHub copilot app which does not grant you access to the chain of thought.
GN0515 2 hours ago [-]
But... why?
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ookblah 2 hours ago [-]
maybe every PR should be run through 2 other llms so they just remove the ads of competitors (or i guess you'll end up with all 3) /s
Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just replaced it the other day.
0. https://github.com/ospfranco/sol
Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!
...for now.
> like JIRA
is not an industry standard. It's a widely used software by some folks. I used it in the past, not using now, for example.
> Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.
Does Microsoft understand objection and negative feedback to experiments?
By the way, most pre-industry-standard FOSS projects still have their own infrastructure. I do find it disappointing that Rust is on GitHub.
Sure; a platform is a platform is a platform. As for predictions, it is interesting to see whether self-hosting and smaller self-managed infrastructures will gain more traction again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820
https://github.com/PlagueHO/plagueho.github.io/pull/24#issue... Copilot has been adding "(emoji) (tip)" thing since May 2025. GitHub copilot was released in May 2025, so basically it has had an ad since beginning.
There are 1.5m of these things in GitHub. https://github.com/search?q=%22%3C%21--+START+COPILOT+CODING...
Here are some of them:
https://github.com/johannesPP/FS-Calculator/pull/2
> Connect Copilot coding agent with Jira, Azure Boards or Linear to delegate work to Copilot in one click without leaving your project management tool.
https://github.com/sharthomas645-tech/HybridAI-Next-React-Vi...
> Send tasks to Copilot coding agent from Slack and Teams to turn conversations into code. Copilot posts an update in your thread when it's finished.
Looks like MS really want to "give tips" about their new integrations.
What I mean is that even if I take that at face value and accept that it's not an ad, and I can just about see from a certain level of corporate brainwashing how one could believe that, it's still completely unacceptable.
I wonder if this is consistent with their terms of service. I mean, maybe they DO take all the responsibility for the code I generate and push in this manner?
So I think they’re injecting this as a tip on using Copilot, that just happens to be their integration with Raycast.
I have no idea what their actual partnership with Raycast looks like, maybe this is part of what they offered them? But it’s not a traditional link to another product ad like it appears to be from Raycast being a link.
GitHub's docs and blog make use of and feature Raycast, and I'm willing to bet that's the result of a partnership, and not because someone writing docs and blog posts happens to think Raycast is great and keeps bringing it up.
I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.
(That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.)
Edit: Just noticed this official GitHub blog post from last month advertising Raycast, making this story a lot more believable: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-co...
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
I'm reminded of Jay Mohr's legendary take some years back on the creepy Carl's Jr. commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlYRS2Vqkw
If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.
I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
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(Yes, this is malware. It’s incontrovertibly adware, and although some will argue that not all adware is malware, this behaviour easily meets the requirements to be deemed malicious.)
It is said, never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot. Apply something similar here.
Commercial front-ends just hide the random seed parameters.
If you look at the positioning, someone has definitely justified that this is benign and a reasonable place to have an ad added in.
But it really seems like an own goal if true.
"It looks like the user wants to add a database, I've gone ahead and implemented the database using today's sponsor: MongoDB"
(sure, I was working on something embedded, and asked for a recommendation, but it seemed quite intent that it wanted me to use that specific board)
No, it is still an advert, and not useful in the least.
Not only unbothered, but genuinely appreciative of the notification.
If you don't want copilot garbage in your PRs, maybe don't use copilot to create or edit them?
So if someone says they use Copilot that could mean anything from they use Word, to they use Claude in VS Code.
Nah I still rate "Windows App" the Windows App that lets you remotely access Windows Apps. I hate it to death, its like a black hole that sucks all meaning from conversations about it.
Either of these options would still be bad, but here the author suggests that it's just copilot that now just injects ads in its output.
See you on neural links before “sponsored thoughts”.
^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.
Brought to you by Wendy's.
"Sent from my iPhone"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycast_(software)
Ray casting, however, is different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
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time is money, save both. try ramp.
Or (not in this case) public relations , which is an interface with how the public views your product, service or company. In this case, copilot adding advertising into git pull requests is bad public relations for Microsoft, but the article author is referring to pull request as PR
I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
If you do it manually, sure.
If you have an agent watching for code changes and automatically opening PRs for small fixes that don't need a human-in-the-loop except for approving the change, it's the opposite of lazy. It eliminately all those tedious 1 point stories and let's the team focus on higher value work that actually needs a person to think about it.
Given time all small changes will be done this way, and eventually there won't be a person reviewing them.
In fact I don't even use Ctrl + F anymore and instead just use Claude for all my searches
As much as AI using a lot of energy, having something that fixes issues in the background is very likely to be a net saving if you consider the number of users who fail to complete a task due to the bug and have to either wait in a broken state or retry later.
It's probably using less energy than a person fixing the issue too. That's a guess though.
Edit: The link in the promotion goes to https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agent...
Which does show that this is affiliated with GitHub unlike what I thought. There are no mentions of this string in a code repository on GitHub (including the Raycast copilot extention).
I currently have rules in all of my skill files forbidding models from advertising themselves or taking credit.
I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
A little "made with X" in your own draft is one thing. Putting branding into a PR your coworkers have to read is another.