Live data from Hacker News

Copilot edited an ad into my PR

notes.zachmanson.com

101–110 of 704 posts

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

A few decades? Its competitors are not magically immune to this kind of spam.

> 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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#102

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

> But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful,

No, it is still an advert, and not useful in the least.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#103

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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It is, but Codeberg is only for free and open source projects.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#106

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?

Yes, it seems very unlikely this is Copilot rather than Raycast, short of some very unexpected weirdness. I cling to that hope, anyway.

Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#107

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.

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”.

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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#109

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

"Sent from iPhone" doesn't contain a call to action, and doesn't exalt the features of the product.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

#110
post #55

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?

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.
Post reply on HN