1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot

322 pointsposted 3 hours ago
by bundie

9 Comments

john_strinlai

3 hours ago

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

response from timrogers (product manager at github):

"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. We won't do something like this again."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233

dang

34 minutes ago

We've merged the comments thither. Thanks!

mnmnmn

26 minutes ago

Microsoft employees should be ashamed of this shit

ChrisArchitect

3 hours ago

tyleo

2 hours ago

It’s a dupe but I hope the discussion continues in this more general thread. That other thread was earlier but more of an individual POV that doesn’t make it obvious there was ecosystem impact.

ChrisArchitect

an hour ago

The article barely expands on the source content. Either way it's the same discussion. And there's lots of it. Over there.

iso1631

an hour ago

The original looked like a one-off

The article shows thousands of adverts, millions if you look more widely. It massively changes the scale.

coded_monkey

42 minutes ago

Which was pointed out by a HN user in the comments of that post. This article claims they suddenly found out the same thing through research. Sure.