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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#63
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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>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.

"Microsoft Remote Desktop" was such a good and distinct name. RIP.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#66
post #9

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?

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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it.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.) 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…

It could simply be something in the Raycast integraton?

I said it’s more believable than GitHub randomly advertising a non-GitHub product (my initial read of the situation, which seemed highly unlikely).

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#69
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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#70
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.
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