Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.

[timmc@better.boston]

@danluu Don't worry, someone from the relevant team at GitHub has said on HN that they "won't do it again".

(Someone else on HN has started a betting market on that claim, heh.)

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests

Oh cool.

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@mkljczk also if "ads" is all microslop has left to turn a profit with this, it's kinda over.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@shac @danluu

You missed the bit about the originators being doxxed, ostracized, and kicked in the fork.

[muhammadfreesoftware@fosstodon.org]

@danluu They will bake ads into FLOSS apps and websites: "Use Microsoft services for better experience! Leave free software now!"

[danluu@mastodon.social]

I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.

It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).

What will they think of next?

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@danluu Oh lovely enshittification

[dngrs@chaos.social]

@davidgerard ️ llmao of the month

[madduci@mastodon.social]

@danluu another reason to stick using the 'git' command from CLi directly

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@danluu
Will it do this through the terminal, do you know?
I've never used the vscode git tools.

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@danluu I am so glad I steered clear of this veritable pile of garbage.

[omegapolice@hachyderm.io]

@danluu Apparently the slopmachines can't be trusted to credit themselves reliably? Go figure. 🤭

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@danluu

I gathered from the HN discussion that this "feature" wasn't supposed to ignore whether you'd really used Copilot: apparently there was a bug in the part which was supposed to detect whether you had or hadn't.

Of course even for people who had used it, it's still rude to make the added message be opt-out!

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@OmegaPolice @danluu

One might even suspect this "feature" was intentional: To get more acceptable PRs which were seemingly made with AI and thus confuse people whether they can recognize AI slop.

"Look, this is a perfectly good PR and it was made with AI".

[dec_hl@mastodon.social]

@danluu secretly modifying the source even when ai slop is turned off and then hiding the changes in the git commit view?

[vampirdaddy@chaos.social]

@danluu
DMCA takedown request as it is fraudulently claiming authorship/copyright?

[infosec812@foojay.social]

@danluu
One more reason I feel justified in no longer using GitHub

[shnooflebear@curly.cat]

@danluu What does this mean for copyrighted code? Wasn't there something like 'if AI is involved, then no copyright'? Somehow this smells like incoming lawsuit...

[rndeon@cosocial.ca]

@danluu this seems really desperate, to me. Trying to juice their stats either internally, for investors, or both. Is there a better interpretation than as a sign things aren't going well?

[moriel@chaosfem.tw]

@danluu

This makes me want to dump VS Code, even though it doesn't affect me since I do all my git stuff from the command line anyway. Microsoft really does seem to want to drive away their customers. I gave up Visual Studio for Rider already, and probably will switch my desktop at home to some Linux distro once Windows 10 stops being viable for games. But the company I work for is an MS shop, and VS Code is the only viable editor I'm allowed to have on my laptop, so crap like this really get's my dander up