Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
If you do it manually, sure.
If you have an agent watching for code changes and automatically opening PRs for small fixes that don't need a human-in-the-loop except for approving the change, it's the opposite of lazy. It eliminately all those tedious 1 point stories and let's the team focus on higher value work that actually needs a person to think about it.
Given time all small changes will be done this way, and eventually there won't be a person reviewing them.
"Brought to you by Carl's Jr."
Brought to you by Wendy's.
(That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.)
I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.
I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
But it really seems like an own goal if true.
If you look at the positioning, someone has definitely justified that this is benign and a reasonable place to have an ad added in.
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time is money, save both. try ramp.
60% sure it is probably an April fools day joke, but still funny even if its true. =3
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If you don't want copilot garbage in your PRs, maybe don't use copilot to create or edit them?
Does advertising work?
Just did!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycast_(software)
Ray casting, however, is different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
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"It looks like the user wants to add a database, I've gone ahead and implemented the database using today's sponsor: MongoDB"
60% sure it is probably an April fools day joke, but still funny even if its true. =3
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So if someone says they use Copilot that could mean anything from they use Word, to they use Claude in VS Code.
Either of these options would still be bad, but here the author suggests that it's just copilot that now just injects ads in its output.
Or (not in this case) public relations , which is an interface with how the public views your product, service or company. In this case, copilot adding advertising into git pull requests is bad public relations for Microsoft, but the article author is referring to pull request as PR
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nialse•55m ago
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longislandguido•17m ago
I'm reminded of Jay Mohr's legendary take some years back on the creepy Carl's Jr. commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlYRS2Vqkw
Joel_Mckay•5m ago
"Brought to you by Carl's Jr."