Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot’s coding agent.

  • eatCasserole@lemmy.worldM
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    9 days ago

    …a team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request.

    A little beside the point, but why on earth would you use copilot to fix “a simple typo?”

    Just the phrase “fix my typo” contains about 10 more characters than a typical “simple typo”.

    Maybe there’s some context I’m missing, but I get the impression that the people using these chatbots every day just have their brains melted. Like even the most rudimentary task becomes daunting without the help of their little bullshit machine.

    • Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      To play devils advocate.

      Maybe to write all the boilerplate of the pull request?

      Still seems quite wastefull. And yeah they are absolutely just offloading their thinking onto the machine.