I would be curious what Raycast’s reaction is. They just got caught in the crossfire or they deliberately bought ads to be placed with Copilot
Doubt Raycast would have known about this, think they are smarter than that. But who knows.
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Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#22First of all, I find it enraging that dimwitted AI companies decided to edit PR descriptions for anything at all.
Wouldn't it change the hash, making push requests conflict in many case?
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#23> Hearing feedback from the community following Manson's post and the kerfuffle it generated, Rogers said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call." Thankfully, they need the community feedback to realize it was wrong. It was so hard to guess it was wrong without the feedback! It's good to know these peop…
> letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge
Wait, did they really sneak this in entirely without user interaction? So people trying not to use AI would still risk being ""contaminated""? Incredible breach of trust. Similar kind of thing to lying about whether your product is vegan.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#24Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.
Yeah, that's part of why nobody wants to use Sourceforge.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#25Remember when they wanted to charge for self hosted runners and “backed down”, let’s see how long it lasts
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#26I would be curious what Raycast’s reaction is. They just got caught in the crossfire or they deliberately bought ads to be placed with Copilot
Doubt Raycast would have known about this, think they are smarter than that. But who knows.
I'm sure they sold this ad space at a premium and someone over there thought it was a brilliant idea. How else would it have happened?
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#27"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition
Thinking of megacorps as anything other than slimy, amoral, scum honestly requires superhuman levels of mental gymnastics.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#28Microsoft is seriously the worst offender in shoving AI down everyone's throats. I'm pro-AI adoption but the way Microsoft distastefully forces Copilot into everything is how you get people to hate AI. I’m guessing product teams are told by upper management to AI-fy every product they own. Teams are then rushed to just get something out there whether they make sense or not.
> Microsoft is seriously the worst offender in shoving AI down everyone's throats.
Microsoft will always be a company that pushes things on people rather than building things that attract people. It's in their DNA.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#29So, after Windows cleanup announcement nobody at Github thought "may be we should review all our copilot integrations to avoid another embarrassment for MS" ?
That shows either it was just a Windows org announcement and not a culture change at MS or it was just an empty promise to temporarily deflect mounting criticism.
Either way it is disappointment for anyone who thought it was a genuine case of introspection and change of heart at MS.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#30"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition
Does it matter these days if a company or administration are "the good guys"? Does "good" even have a meaning anymore? The "good" part of the world rotates in disbelief since Trump was re-elected in a democratic vote. Everyone says Microsoft is evil, since, what, the 90s?! But still, Windows is everywhere. Is anyone still buying this moral bullshit? "Goodness" obviously has no majority.