1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

response from timrogers (product manager at github):

"Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs.

We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. We won't do something like this again."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233

Say hello to the future of the programming. It might take a few years, but eventually this will be standard procedure. You'll start seeing them in the interactions you have with the agent, then in comments, then maybe the agent will offer to throw together a nice little demo of something for you free of charge, just to show you your options.

Example of multiple items discussing the same topic, both on https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575212

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269