Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot’s coding agent.
Microsoft is half a century old, it came onto the scene when I was a kid, and I can’t remember anything it’s ever done past its first year of existence that wasn’t shitty in some form or other. The mind boggles…
Xp, 7, og Xbox. Never bought one but people liked zune. They did a few cool things, though rare and none recent.
XP and 7 were shit operating systems - easy to pwn, easy to crash, not terribly stable as stable operating systems go. They were just the best Windows version Microsoft put out - meaning the least bad in absolute terms.
Xbox… Well, they made it good in the end. But it started out quite shit
Zune was a joke. Yeah, some people liked it, just like some people liked Yugos.
OG Xbox. 360 was shit outside of arcade and opening the door to mainlining indies
Win XP was so great, I STILL have my serial number memorized from reinstalling it seventeenbarillion times
…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.
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.
