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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by dang »

wswope wrote: post #627
dang wrote: post #625

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two thoughts: (1) the long-term health of the community has to be the priority here. Otherwise it won't survive—all the default internet vectors point the other way; (2) it's possible to push back, express skepticism, etc., in way that respects the person on the other side of the conversation and isn't just venting the impulse to shame the other. You guys ( Like I said upthread, I agree with you on the underlying iss…

It’s not about bigco at all in my eyes. At the end of the day, if you want intellectual curiosity and openness, bad-faith dishonesty needs to be weeded out; thought-provoking and honest conversation should be promoted, regardless of where the contributor is employed. The problem isn’t working for Microsoft. The problem is dishonesty. You’re treating the root comment with kid gloves because it’s from a Microsoft emplo…

Internet commenters massively over-attribute "bad-faith dishonesty" to others while denying it in themselves. There's enough bad faith to go around in all of us.

It's obvious that the dominant variable in the GP was that he was replying from within $BigCo. Your comment starts out by denying that and ends by confirming it.

I'm not asking for special treatment for anyone, but the opposite: I don't anyone on HN to be the target of a mob. That's the entire point.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by joegibbs »

simonw wrote: post #371

In case people missed it in the other thread, GitHub have now disabled this: https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/203861213108446452... > We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.

But why run free advertising in the first place?

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by miraculixx »

timrogers wrote: post #250

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…

So you continue to show ads to Copilt, just not to the user? If so, not a fix.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by connorgurney »

connorgurney wrote: post #106
crimsoneer wrote: post #95

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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…

Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry!

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by lelanthran »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #385
ncr100 wrote: post #325

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Creepy. Looks like they rolled it back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233 Collection of my thoughts which don't really get to a point: - Microsoft owns GitHub, where Raycast is being mentioned thousands of times by their tooling. - Microsoft is a modern popularizer of the infamous phrase, embrace extend extinguish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... - Microsoft has a history o…

> Microsoft has a history of monopoly behavior I just want to note that the case you link to was 25 years ago. The number of people working at Microsoft at the time who are still working there today is very small.

> I just want to note that the case you link to was 25 years ago. The number of people working at Microsoft at the time who are still working there today is very small.

That's just a long way of calling Microsoft a bunch of monkeys :-)

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheFiveMonkeys=

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by joeevans1000 »

tyleo wrote: post #251
mathieudutour wrote: post #228

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> I don't know if Raycast team even knows about this. I'm part of Raycast, we didn't know about it, learnt about it here

I haven’t clicked through so all I know about Raycast is, “that’s the company that gets shoved into ads by copilot.” Sounds like it’s not your fault but it’s probably doing some brand damage :/

Well... I didn't know about them until now. Looks like a cool product, actually. Might have to try them out. What's that old saying?

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

timrogers wrote: post #250

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…

This was obviously a terrible error of judgement. Will you be resigning over this?

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by antonvs »

plastic041 wrote: post #665
antonvs wrote: post #327

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They might argue it's not an ad but they don't believe or think it's not an ad. There's a big difference.

Well, at least their PM thinks(or argue ) it's a tip[0]. Also it's pretty obvious I was just being sarcastic about MS's behaviors. I don't know why you are so mean but please don't be. Have a nice day. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233

The correct word would be that the PM claims it’s a tip. Now ask yourself whether a PM who realizes he or his team has made a terrible mistake and is doing damage control in public is likely to make only true claims.

Correcting your mistakes is not mean. If you didn’t mean what you wrote, well hey, that’s a good example of the difference between what you think and what you say. See how that works?

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by NicoJuicy »

timrogers wrote: post #250

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…

I literally thought it was an early April fool's

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by keremimo »

timrogers wrote: post #250

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…

You mean ads. Don't sugarcoat it. They are ads. Not tips. Ads.
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