Dan LuuMar 30

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

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@danluu Tweaking the github query string I found 1.5M pull requests containing a copilot ad of some form: https://github.com/search?q=%22START+COPILOT+CODING+AGENT+TIPS%22&type=pullrequests .
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@danluu This topic gained attraction on the ycombinator board, and it seems that github staff claim responsability for inserting "tips" into the PR descriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233 .
Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pu... | Hacker News

Mar 30 at 5:57pmWeb