In coding, a “pull request” is when you write a code patch to a piece of software and ask the project maintainer to pull it in. GitHub Copilot has started adding advertising to your pull requests! …
  • V0ldekEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    Raycast says they had nothing to do with the ad, and learnt of it only when the Hacker News thread took off.

    Wait but like that means that MSFT didn’t get money for the ad from Raycast? So like, they just put ads into stuff for no reason whatsoever??

    • David GerardOPMAEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      So MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!

      • dizEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        I wouldn’t be too surprised if they really don’t, they’re just advertising the advertising lol.

        edit: Basically what if you spent a trillion dollars so that you could beam ads to people’s bathroom mirrors. And better yet, ads reflected from water down in their toilets. Then in the interest of expediency you just take random ads and put them there for free, and your actual product, shares, sells better.

      • SoyweiserEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        What if, because llms are trained on the internet, this is just something which will eventually be included. Statistically it needs more ads.