Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.

[mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl]

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @miclgael@hachyderm.io @danluu@mastodon.social it links to github docs

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@nina_kali_nina @danluu interestingly I tried to scan a URL of one of the ads for malware and cloudflare refused 🫠

[imbl@social.treehouse.systems]

@danluu hey look what was posted 10 days ago

Monitor Copilot coding agent logs live in Raycast - GitHub Changelog

Raycast is a powerful free launcher for macOS and Windows. It can launch apps, search files, control your system, and leverage community-built extensions. With the GitHub Copilot extension for Raycast,…

The GitHub Blog (github.blog)

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu

I think the annoying thing for me is I can't tell if:

- Copilot inject ad now
- User found dodgy free tier wrapper around copilot that inject ad now
- Autonomously deployed AI bot farm for injecting ad inject ad now

Because all outputs look the same because Microsoft hold a gigantic foot cannon and aim it at the crater where their feet used to be, daily.

[chase@chaos.social]

@danluu the thing i always find most baffling is people using AI for tasks that are already solved:

GitHub already contains a dependency updater that doesn't rely on AI and a lot of languages also have dependency updaters that can easily be executed in GitHub actions for free

chore: update charm libraries by observability-noctua-bot · Pull Request #580 · canonical/traefik-k8s-operator

This charmed operator automates the operational procedures of running Traefik, an open-source application proxy. - chore: update charm libraries by observability-noctua-bot · Pull Request #580 · canonical/traefik-k8s-operator

GitHub (github.com)

[oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online]

Can't wait for AdGentic AI to rewrite commit messages:

"Bob wrote this line supported by Pink Bull energy drinks"

"Refactored by Alice and Snackers, now with more nuts!"

Ufff.

#nerd #humor

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@guenther @danluu This is barely two weeks old, the sneaky will come eventually.

They're probably trying to see what they can get away with. Let's not accuse them of incompetence yet.

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@imbl @danluu funny marketing to have the example video not do anything except show a loading bar long enough for me to click away without learning about it.

I guess thats like Nintendo in their ads for Switch 2 being honest about low framerates and lag if you try to play Mario Kart World with friends.

[guenther@chaos.social]

@mahryekuh or maybe the tokens are too expensive to waste them on ads

@danluu

[mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl]

@miclgael@hachyderm.io @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @danluu@mastodon.social can confirm this is simply what agentic PRs look like on copilot pro

[hopeless@mas.to]

@danluu It's pretty depressing... for AI coding assist like Antigravity, I prefer it doesn't write the commit log and deal with that myself, so it should be immune.

It's a warning though, remote AI is your coding buddy who wants to help, but ultimately there's the danger it's the AI version of someone who befriends you in order to report on you to management.

But where's the selfhostable coding assist that's competitive with, eg, Gemini 3.1?

[ciaranmak@mastodon.ie]

@danluu they are just so lame

[piggo@piggo.space]

@danluu cant wait for penis enlargement popup ads on github

[sed@social.lol]

@danluu I look forward to Microsoft inserting ads into my Github Pages hosted blog.

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@danluu Let's just hope they haven't seen the film of A Clockwork Orange...

[bouncing@twit.social]

That’s icky.

[deman@hachyderm.io]

@danluu i'd love to see ads of #codeberg injected in github prs!

[arclight@oldbytes.space]

@Chase @danluu Days ago, a peer seriously suggested using a LLM to sort a short list of text. Tony Hoare hasn't been dead a month and this is where we are.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@danluu I would usually act surprised, because this is the WTF to end all WTF’s.. ‍‍‍

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@danluu Is this something intentional from Micro$lop/GitHub, or just people engineering ShartGPT/Copilot into posting ads to their shit?