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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Well, you are not alone: https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

Interesting indeed. I wonder how long GitHub as a platform will be there as a viable option. Anyone who remembers SourceForge?

I believe Codeberg is the new hotness

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#83
post #55

Well, you are not alone: https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

Looks like there's a comment added by Copilot before any of these "tips" as well, so pretty sure this originates from Copilot and not Raycast: https://github.com/search?q=%22START+COPILOT+CODING+AGENT+TI...

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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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

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.

> Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered

Not only unbothered, but genuinely appreciative of the notification.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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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"

Likely already happening.

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)

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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post #85

Post the trajectory if this is real.

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.

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.
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