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?

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flogy 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

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politelemon 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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oefrha 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it.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-co...

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MattGaiser 17 hours ago | parent [-]

It could simply be something in the Raycast integraton?

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oefrha 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I said it’s more believable than GitHub randomly advertising a non-GitHub product (my initial read of the situation, which seemed highly unlikely).

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rob74 16 hours ago | parent [-]

...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.

	▲	acka 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		An originally macOS-only product, too. Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.