Mastodawn

Given GitHub's hostile push for AI, I desperately want to move Bottles's code to GNOME GitLab and keep the Codeberg mirror up.

I'm legit so fucking tired of it. It makes it hard for me to develop Bottles without Copilot spams demotivating me. Their hostile push has gotten like Discord where everything is Nitro COPILOT THIS Nitro COPILOT THAT. I'm stuck here playing the opposite of Where's Wally: as in "try not to find any mentions of Copilot".

It's been bothering me so much that it has become more and more difficult to contribute to projects hosted on GitHub. I also get uncomfortable when I contribute to software mirrored to GitHub, which includes GNOME apps.

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@TheEvilSkeleton Copilot is disabled at org level in Bottles. Both for the "Coding agent" and general "Access". What you see in the issues sidebar is a kind of advertisement suggesting you to try it but is not kicking in if you are not requesting it.

I would like to know more about the sentence «Copilot spams demotivating me», could you make an example of what Copilot does?
I'm honestly interested in understand more.

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Jamie

May 27

@pietrodc0 @TheEvilSkeleton
You can now ask Copilot to open issues for you on repositories, it doesn't check for duplicates and it tries to write more rather than less about something it doesn't understand.

Better yet, it will look like it was opened by the user, so before you read it, you can't known whether it was written by Copilot or not.

This is just a huge waste of time for developers, and it's just another step Microsoft makes in the enshittification of GitHub.

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@monster @TheEvilSkeleton you mean in the IDE integrations? I don't see this feature on GitHub 🤔

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Od-Nan Kenobi May 27

@pietrodc0 @monster @TheEvilSkeleton it's a recent change, copilot is now integrated into the issues creator, so people that used to create low-effort, irrelevant or duplicate issues using AI (and had to copy paste before) can now do this directly from github, and are very well invited to do so by the interface

The original announcement of the feature:

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/

Creating issues with Copilot on github.com is in public preview - GitHub Changelog

Say goodbye to manual, repetitive issue creation. With Copilot, creating issues for bugs, tasks, and feature requests on GitHub is now faster and easier—all without sacrificing quality. What’s new Natural…

The GitHub Blog

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@odnankenobi @monster @TheEvilSkeleton looks like I didn't receive that update yet, going to check if I can opt-in in the beta features

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@odnankenobi @monster @TheEvilSkeleton

ah, you have first of all to go in "immersive mode", need an active Copilot license (so not everyone, expecially spammers) have it, then ask to create the issue for you.

In my personal opinion is not a so pushed feature that is encouraging everyone to open bad issues with no fact checking...

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@odnankenobi @monster @TheEvilSkeleton

moreover, it's literally Chat GPT, it's going to do what asked to do. So if is not asked to check for duplicates it's not going to do it.
I'm not saying that is going to perform a proper and good check if requested, I need to perform some test before being able to provide a full feedback, but I don't see the huge mentioned problem in the room

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Od-Nan Kenobi

@pietrodc0 @monster @TheEvilSkeleton

The main problem is AI being used as a tool to supercharge low-quality-issue spamming by people. It was already a problem for many projects, this new feature is going to make the problem a lot worse. The platform, GitHub, had a responsibility to design itself to help solve problems, not worsen them.
If repo maintainers had the choice to disable the feature for issues submitted to their repo, it would be mostly fine. I think that's the push we should make

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Pietro di Caprio May 27

@odnankenobi @monster @TheEvilSkeleton

I understand what you are saying.

Given that, by documentation, the user you mention need a Copilot license to perform the actions you mention,
the place where raise these concerns, if you want them listened and evaluated, is:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/general

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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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Od-Nan Kenobi May 28

@pietrodc0 @monster @TheEvilSkeleton I know, and thanks for leaving the link here for convenience of everyone in the thread. The intent of discussing this in here is mostly to get more people to voice this on GitHub, and also to iterate over the ideas in general