Copilot edited an ad into my PR • Hacker News Board

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by heavyset_go » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:59 AM UTC

politelemon wrote: post #94

anton-g wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Child comments here indicates its from Ray cast, and the messaging appears on gitlab too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820

You can use Copilot with Gitlab

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by heavyset_go » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

connorgurney wrote: post #106

crimsoneer wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by rob74 » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #68

MattGaiser wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by deredede » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:07 AM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #54

pabrams wrote: post #14

Why are you "summoning copilot" to correct a typo?

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.

GitHub (still) allows you to edit files directly in the browser without using AI.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by starkeeper » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:09 AM UTC

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.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:10 AM UTC

Claude will add itself as a contributor to a PR, which I consider an ad.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by crvdgc » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:11 AM UTC

People, we just solved the LLM watermarking problem.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by plastic041 » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:12 AM UTC

This "ad" is not exactly new. Looks like MS thinks it's a "tip" rather than an ad. I don't know if Raycast team even knows about this.

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.

edit: I think it's an ad too. Everyone would think so, except for MS.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by sumuyuda » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:12 AM UTC

steve1977 wrote: post #104

marcus_holmes wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe Codeberg is the new hotness

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

Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:13 AM UTC

connorgurney wrote: post #106

crimsoneer wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The same way Google advertisers other organisations products.