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."
It’s a dupe but I hope the discussion continues in this more general thread. That other thread was earlier but more of an individual POV that doesn’t make it obvious there was ecosystem impact.
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
We've merged the comments thither. Thanks!
Microsoft employees should be ashamed of this shit
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
It’s a dupe but I hope the discussion continues in this more general thread. That other thread was earlier but more of an individual POV that doesn’t make it obvious there was ecosystem impact.
The article barely expands on the source content. Either way it's the same discussion. And there's lots of it. Over there.
The original looked like a one-off
The article shows thousands of adverts, millions if you look more widely. It massively changes the scale.
Which was pointed out by a HN user in the comments of that post. This article claims they suddenly found out the same thing through research. Sure.