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I asked copilot how developers would react if AI agents put ads in their PRs.

>Developers would react extremely negatively. This would be seen as 1. A massive breach of trust. 2. Unprofessional and disruptive. 3. A security/integrity concern. 4. Career-ending for the product. The backlash would likely be swift and severe.

Sometimes AI can be right.

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Which product called Copilot did you ask?

https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/RviQKF1om6oxZY2pENL6c

Sample size is 2 now!

Maybe this one?

https://copilot.microsoft.com/

Maybe, but Microsoft has a lot of products which they branded Copilot. Pretty sure that was his point.

Microsoft loves to do this with brand names -- a friend who's still there said they stopped counting at 30 different "Defender for ______" products.

I'm reminded of the ads when logging into Ununtu in the motd...nothing infuriated me more (I only used it for a short period).

Me too, main reason I switched to Debian.

It’s not really ads, it’s more like "Sent from my iPhone"-style sentences at the end of PR texts.

I agree. It's not an advertisement, it's simply a piece of information about your particular choice of technology.

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which is an ad...

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"Sent from my iPhone" actually is an ad when it’s the result of default settings.

Furthermore, the ads in TFA are for Raycast, but apparently it’s not Raycast doing the injecting.

companies pay for ad distribution. its not like they give a free ad service -$-. maybe they dont chose how the campaigns are done (and dont give shits)

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"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast" is an advert. There's simply no better word to describe it.

> It’s not really ads, it’s more like "Sent from my iPhone"-style sentences at the end of PR texts.

The reason I immediately changed that text on my iPhone 1.0 to read, “Sent from my mobile device.”, is because it’s an ad. Still says that nearly 20y later. I’m not schilling for a corporation after giving them my money.

Alright Phil.

"Sent from my iPhone" is just as bad. If you don't see it then IDK what to tell you.

Agreed. Barely notice it.

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the difference is "sent from my iPhone" is on YOUR outgoing email. you opted into that default. this is copilot editing someone else's PR description with promotional text for third party tools. that's not a signature, that's injection. imagine if gcc started appending "compiled with gcc, try our new optimization flags" to your README every time you built a project.

Disagreed. The default in iOS is to inject. The opt out procedure is to change your signature.

If it only mentioned made with copilot that would be one thing, but it didn't just mention Copilot. It advertised a different third party app.

And everyone thought they were cool! Mac zeolots still put "Made with a Mac" on their webpages.

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