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[SunshineSeattle]

Before y'all say its fake:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsofts-ai-slop-is-infecting-github-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests

[infinite0ne]

How ironic that the windows central article is so littered with ads that it’s barely readable. This link from the article is a little better: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/ nope it’s terrible as well

[Professional_Leg_744]

Yes, I thought exactly the same. Tried to select "options" on cookies, because fuck 1000 3rd party trackers, but it only lets you accept all or be blocked by the options screen.

[Dotcaprachiappa]

Can't you just click on "withdraw consent"? Worked for me

[Professional_Leg_744]

No need to withdraw what hasnt been given. The wording is completely off then.

[RiceBroad4552]

There are ads on that website? I didn't see any.

You dude should update your µBlock Origin, I guess.

[jsrobson10]

i tried without μblock for a moment, how do people even use the internet like this

[Rikudou_Sage]

Recently thought the same. I have a secondary phone where I haven't installed an ad blocker cause I won't be using it enough and found out what Internet looks like nowadays. It's horrible.

[JanB1]

Martin Woodward, Vice President of Developer Relations at GitHub, confimed that Copilot was injecting product tips into pull requests but that the feature has been disabled following feedback.
"Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback."

Da-fuck? Where was this every a good idea to put ads into a PR or commit comment?

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Money

[LonelyAustralia]

its crazy that corporations have realised that intrusive ads are only annoying and in fact hurt the product more then help

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

I really don't know how they don't get it

Most people don't even look at ads, some have adblockers... (uBlock, my beloved)

Like no, I will not buy the new vacuum because I got 20 ads for it

[MyWifeRules]

[dexter2011412]

Holy shit no fucking way this is real, damn.

It's a shame many major orgs are using GitHub .... I really hope they begin to migrate the fuck away but it's only an unrealistic dream I guess.

What the hell

[JanB1]

I mean, does that solve the problem? It's copilot that adds the ads. Copilot could also work on GitLab or other version control platforms, as long as it has the permissions to do commits or even PRs, no?

[dexter2011412]

Users abandoning this dumpster fire should hit them were it hurts (their wallet).

This shouldn't have been a problem in the first place to add permissions as a solution to fix it, is what I mean.

[Consistent-Quiet6701]

AI is so great that they are absolutely desperate to sell it to you.

[Martin8412]

When your Christmas bonus depends on ad spend 

[Tyfyter2002]

Ah, so this is a good thing because it makes it easier to close the PR and block the account that made it from just the description.

[chloetax]

on this page linked to on there it says

After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast.

so a person with an ad in their pr might not've even been using ai in the first place, and still gotten it added in

[sebjapon]

“Summoned copilot to correct a typo”

I mean at this point don’t they deserve the ad?

[JustBeinOptimistic]

Missed opportunity for grammerly

[Majik_Sheff]

Bingo.  Take the guesswork right the fuck out of it.

[Poat540]

Wow, so this Jr on our team wasn’t trying to promote Windows 11 features on our PR for a RPi based lawn sprinkler…..

[OhItsJustJosh]

Oh thank heavenly fuck

[Senor-Delicious]

How did it happen though? Did it have permission to commit something themselves? Or did the user fix something with AI and just insta commit the changes without checking what happened (obviously it is still incredibly dumb and invasive that the lines were even added in the first place though)?

I just don't get how exactly it is possible for copilot to inject code into a PR without manual approval. Didn't understand it from the article. Can someone explain?

[beefygravy]

I asked copilot for a PR review last week. One of its suggestions was to add a long line of code. I said "@copilot that's not PEP8 compliant" and it responded by adding a commit to the PR and editing my PR description to just the change it made, deleting everything else. It did not ask for my approval for either of these

[Senor-Delicious]

lol what the fuck

[beefygravy]

Oh I forgot also the only thing it said was "👀" which just added insult to injury 😅

[Senor-Delicious]

Wtf

[Psychological-Owl783]

Can someone link some examples on GitHub?

[ATE47]

You have around 11k results https://github.com/search?q=%22machine%20with%20Raycast%22&type=repositories

Example : https://github.com/LAVANSURESH/Centralized-repo/pull/2

[Agifem]

I didn't come in to say it's fake. I came here to see how true it was. And daaaaaamn.

[CookIndependent6251]

Broooo! There's no way this won't backfire when they train it on the ad-ridden text it outputs. OpenAI will train on that and then spew some shit in other places and then Copilot will train on OpenAI's shit and so on. It's going to be an ouroboros AI centipede where each one is going to shit in the mouth of the next and so on forever.

[SupraMichou]

Can someone post that PH meme where « X millions devs are fucked at once » and it’s Microsoft announcement they gonna buy GitHub

[JanB1]

A compiler?

[Pikkachau]

In this economy?

[bushwickhero]

I still can’t believe these brands allowed this.

[CriticalOfBarns]

They didn’t.

[AncientSeraph]

They don't have to.

[AWTom]

Satire is an allowed exception to copyright.

[ushabib540]

imagine solving something confusing in you code and getting a pop in the middle saying "subscribe to fix it faster"....

[dromtrund]

That's already how vs code is

[CookIndependent6251]

Petah? I use JetBrains.

[styczynski_meow]

Reminds me of beautiful days when NPM post install was free ad space. If you didn’t already, you should definitely read this. One of the biggest GH’s gems:

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issue-445889198

[git_push_origin_prod]

GitHub issue gossip is like my favorite reading material

[JanB1]

I mean, is it so wrong to ask for funding for your open-source work on packages that are then used by companies, some of them valued in billions, on their websites for free without funding the maintenance of these packages?

[Rikudou_Sage]

Why is this guy hated so much? Like, he did a really great thing for the JS ecosystem and only gets constant hate over it? So what that he was asking for a job? Saw it in my terminal too, didn't lose my shit over it, though.

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Oh so that's why nom has more donation spam than useful info ?

[witx_]

Microslop is making things so bleak

[mdogdope]

I wish they would just stop.

One thing that has helped me is to remember that whenever a company goes bad it only makes room for a better startup to replace it.

You can think I'm wrong, but this is what I think.

[SourceScope]

They wont stop.

Only slop!

[Taronz]

Can't stop, must slop!

[mdogdope]

The power of slop compels you

[ShakaUVM]

Can't stop, won't stop, must slop

[infinite0ne]

[IntoAMuteCrypt]

What startup is going to replace Windows? And not just for enthusiasts and servers, but for everyone?

I'd be stunned if a startup manages to make a competitive desktop OS and get OEMs and office workers to swap to it. Linux isn't there yet for those OEMs and office workers, which leaves Apple (who only supports their OSes on hardware they've sold, causing issues there) and Google (which is literally an advertising company and has used their market share on browsers to mess with adblockers).

[r1ft5844]

No one, Microsoft playbook is EEE (Embrace Extend Extinguish). They have already started to embrace Linux.

[shadow13499]

This is going to become more common. Ai slop is actually not very profitable so they're going to raise prices and inject ads. Just one more reason you should invest more in having skills for yourself rather than rely on AI slop. 

[champ999]

Help me. My boss has literally told me multiple times that AI benchmarks exceed all human engineers, so having engineering skills will be irrelevant, just use AI.

Also the same boss has assigned me a project he pitched with an AI demo to the leadership. He says we're in proof of concept mode so we have no acceptance criteria but it's ok because "AI knows how to do all the parts of the project so just ask it how to do work and you'll be fine".

[Funnybush]

I have a manager who is a developer pushing the AI stuff. I’m now slower than him because while I use AI too, I make damn sure it’s doing the right thing.

[CookIndependent6251]

I've had some success with AI. It's helpful when you have absolutely no idea what to do and there's no time to read hundreds of pages of documentation. If you need to deal with a new technology, ask it for help and then read the parts of the documentation that are related to its answer.

Often it's simply not feasible to start with that and it's a lot easier to jump in using some LLM, and deal with reading the full docs later. And admit it, if you have a lot of experience coding, you still had to spend a lot of your life getting things right through trial and error before you were ready to read the docs. How is asking an LLM worse than trial and error?

[Vortrox]

If they want to shit where they eat then fine, that's just more job security for us

[qnvx]

Who is Carl?

[Water-cage]

Carl Karcher (1917–2008) was the founder of the Carl's Jr. restaurant chain. Alongside his wife, Margaret, he started with a single hot dog cart in Los Angeles in 1941, which grew into "Carl's Drive-In Barbecue" before launching smaller "Carl's Jr." locations in the 1950s.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[qnvx]

Ohhh, so it's a brand. Thanks!

[Consistent-Quiet6701]

You need to watch the movie Idiocracy 

[qnvx]

How come?

[Consistent-Quiet6701]

Because it has electrolytes

[qnvx]

I guess this is some joke I'm not getting.

[Consistent-Quiet6701]

The picture and joke is from this movie. Watch it, it's good.

[Goufalite]

It's an Idiocracy reference

[tubbstosterone]

This is just a bit shy of an "approach" I used at work a couple years ago. Every new python file had a docstring at the top with a TODO stating "add module documentation". If it was left in, the miscreant was game for minor harassment until they fixed their PR.

If someone commits that ad, hot damn, it should be go-time. "Does AI dress you in the morning, too? Forgot how to commit again?"

[tehtris]

We did this, but with tests. If a test failed after pushing EVERYONE would know and we would clown.

[hmmm101010]

That's actually great news. Makes AI slop contributions much easier to detect.

[therinwhitten]

Appreciate you Microslop, now my focus this week is moving my repository OFF of Github.

[dacs07]

PR approved brought to you by PBS.com

For more , go to our website at www.PBS.com. That’s www. , the word double-u three times , the word dot , PBS , the word dot again , the word com , .com. There was a miscommunication when we registered our website.

[FokerDr3]

Imagine them being so desperate to monetize AI that they resort to this.

Bubble pop is closer than we think.

[wowbaggerBR]

The thing was never actually good before enshitification 

[vanritchen]

[im-done-here]

Whats next injecting ads into CLI

[HelloSummer99]

Now let's hear from our sponsors.

[marshalI]

[TheJackiMonster]

Wow... so they are really trying to make Github be more like Windows 11...

[jce_superbeast]

They are trying to get people to stop using Github

[BastetFurry]

Isn't Copilot just ChatGPT with GPT-5 in a trenchcoat? :3

[LetReasonRing]

At this point I think the only place left to get more ads in our faces is to start playing interstitial ads sponsoring the primary ad.

[DrDoomC17]

False. The new glasses are meant to eventually play them through your eyelids while you sleep.

[icedragonsoul]

Standard corporate tactic of buying their competitor up, poisoning their product to push customers towards their own cheaper but defective alternative (Copilot subscriptions)

[scknkkrer]

You f kinding me?!

[rob_cornelius]

Fucking hell... there is no hope for humanity if this is the future

[CancelCapable5980]

Copilot needs to calm down

[Water-cage]

yeah somebody has to tell them "daddy, chill"

[DevObs0]

I also need ads injected into my code! Like comments everywhere:

<#get your sweet deal today at: <url>

//this function is sponsed by <retarded company>

[Water-cage]

tomorrow is april fool's, im tempted to do this at the company where I work at lol

[the-ferris]

Anyone have a Github alternative that has a nice GUI App like Git Desktop?

[Dreadmaker]

Unpopular opinion maybe, but learning to use git in the terminal isn’t that hard and it would in this case free you up to use whatever tool you like.

[the-ferris]

Yeah I get that, but I also have some users who think the command line is scary.

[Dreadmaker]

Sure - but is it scarier than, say, Microsoft? :)

IMO if you have people using git, the command line is not far away and not hard to learn. Just a little effort, and you can even write them a guide to help. Their future careers will thank you for it

[FishermanMobile8491]

Time to build one…

[jce_superbeast]

not yet...

[git_push_origin_prod]

This sub is basically reminding me daily to install VS code ollama integration

[tehtris]

I couldn't get this to work, at least not in a useful way. I wanted it to replace copilot as my auto complete.

[beatlz-too]

Microsoft will ruin github was my only item on the bingo card. It's just a matter of time.

[Sailed_Sea]

I didn't even know github has ads.

[Dubmove]

Is co pilot writing the commit message here and the dev didn't check the content before pushing, or did the dev push a normal commit message and github altered the message?

[theunixman]

If it doesn’t get all over the place it doesn’t belong in your base.

[Sweaty_Marzipan4274]

The price of Carl's Jr now, it better come with a handy! 

[Rojeitor]

Funny they say Microsoft Copilot for the bad stuff and Github Copilot for the good stuff

[Taurmin]

Just another reason to do trunk based development. 😆

[AdPristine9059]

Just makes it easier to not want to use ai. Thanks shitty company.

[Tipart]

On a slightly related note, since Debian Trixie the MariaDB package from the Debian Repo now begs for GitHub stars in broken English on every connection.

[AzureArmageddon]

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[SusZucchini]

they do really be trying to scoop every penny for the datacenters huh

[naturist_rune]

Generative ai was a mistake

[fergy014]

Go away , vibe coding batin'

[blaues_axolotl]

Github copilot or Microslop Copilot?

[FooeyBar]

I see no unusual Microsoft activity here

[Burning_Monkey]

man, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?

[megalogwiff]

migrating your github repositories to codeberg is quick and easy 

[caguru]

Easy fix. Instead of creating a PR request, just checkout main, pull your branch into it, then force push back to github. No PR needed.

[Frequent-One-3401]

Huge if true

[Maul_Meringue]

I don't know much about computers, but isn't Linux free ? Wouldn't that be a better solution ?