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Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr description

by WD-42 7mo ago

Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr descriptions is the only way without risking another 9 of downtime?

oefrha 7mo ago
If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it. /s (That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.) Edit: Just noticed this official GitHub blog post from last month advertising Raycast, making this story a lot more believable: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-copilot-coding-agent-from-raycast/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-co...
- MattGaiser 7mo ago
  It could simply be something in the Raycast integraton?
  - oefrha 7mo ago
    I said it’s more believable than GitHub randomly advertising a non-GitHub product (my initial read of the situation, which seemed highly unlikely).
    - rob74 7mo ago
      ...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.
      - acka 7mo ago
        An originally macOS-only product, too. Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.
flogy 7mo ago
Are we sure this actually is originating from MS Copilot itself? Technically I believe it would be possible to smuggle ads into PRs using prompt injection too.
- lionkor 7mo ago
  Yes https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks%22&type=pullrequests https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
politelemon 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820 I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.

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Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr description

by WD-42 7mo ago

oefrha 7mo ago
If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it. /s (That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.) Edit: Just noticed this official GitHub blog post from last month advertising Raycast, making this story a lot more believable: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-copilot-coding-agent-from-raycast/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-co...
- MattGaiser 7mo ago
  It could simply be something in the Raycast integraton?
  - oefrha 7mo ago
    I said it’s more believable than GitHub randomly advertising a non-GitHub product (my initial read of the situation, which seemed highly unlikely).
    - rob74 7mo ago
      ...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.
      - acka 7mo ago
        An originally macOS-only product, too. Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.
flogy 7mo ago
Are we sure this actually is originating from MS Copilot itself? Technically I believe it would be possible to smuggle ads into PRs using prompt injection too.
- lionkor 7mo ago
  Yes https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks%22&type=pullrequests https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
politelemon 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820 I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.