all of these UI elements have to do with the current issue that the user is looking at, except one.

they *really* want to shove this shit down people's throats.

@andrewrk granted, they did add a setting to hide copilot stuff from the GitHub UI a while back (under https://github.com/settings/copilot).

...except the person or LLM tasked with implementing this sidebar change forgot to check it so it doesn't work 🙄
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@linus @andrewrk FWIW the same happened with Copilot review requests. I opened a support ticket complaining about that and they removed it for me (but I don't think the setting was fixed). I would guess that if enough people open such support tickets they will probably fix the setting