Thank you. I included the url params when I made the post, but it appears that HN strips these.
Szpadel · 3m ago
doesn't you need to explicitly add copilot as reviewer for it to comment?
I recently tried it for our own PRs and it is far from perfect but it was able to find some typos, and I had to explicitly ask it for doing review
am I missing something?
noobermin · 3h ago
Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...
pjmlp · 2h ago
Basically FOMO, and keeping shareholders happy.
We have OKRs for using AI, yet no dev tooling allowed without customer permission in projects delivery.
So you have this ridiculous situation where the only tool devs are allowed to use is CoPilot 365, and pasting/saving code, for those that care about their OKRs.
0xbadcafebee · 2h ago
Same reason random companies shipped Web 3.0 and NFTs. They were hoping to make money off it. They're now hoping if they sprinkle some AI pixie dust it will make money. If they're smart they can grab a couple million off the AI bandwagon before it goes bust. Either way they need to keep up with the joneses.
epolanski · 2h ago
Microsoft wants to lock you as soon as possible in their ecosystem for AI-usage?
If they can get the many GH enterprise users to use copilot on their repos, then for Microsoft the future is merely about optimizing their margins while the technology keeps getting better.
feverzsj · 2h ago
To attract more investment, because it's the hottest trend. They don't care if it actually works and profits.
rgreekguy · 2h ago
Microsoft only forces things, it's not a surprise at this point.
toomuchtodo · 2h ago
To grow revenue. If it’s an option, it is less likely to be bought versus including it and increasing prices to get towards growth goals.
Tech wants the growth, companies consuming this want to be able to do more with less people. The result is the current experience.
(TLDR line go up)
georgemcbay · 2h ago
Can't make a bubble without generating a lot of froth.
iphone_elegance · 2h ago
CEO tells CTO to allocate budget towards increasing productivity with AI and this is the asnwer, it's easy to enable and not that expensive to trial
shmerl · 2h ago
After investing a lot of money, bean counters can make things look better on paper if they can say "you see, everyone is using it". Others want to benefit from users actually training their AI. So they'll feed you all kind of party slogans, but they rarely are real motivations.
_Algernon_ · 2h ago
They have invested huge amounts in the AI bubble which they have to justify to shareholders and / or investors. The easiest way to do this is to integrate it into existing products which already exists so they can claim millions of daily active users.
Same reason Google has added AI summary to their most used product: search.
rcleveng · 3h ago
:shocked_pikachu_face:
In all seriousness, I was using a different LLM with vscode, and it still kept popping up dialogs about copilot. This is after I had uninstalled the copilot extensions (or at least I tried to uninstall it all).
I'd love for the IDE's like cursor to be able to be an extension on vscode and such, but this type of thing makes it super hard for that to be a reality.
hommes-r · 16m ago
Sad to see the "change world GDP" mantra didn't trickle down to the people doing the actual plumbing.
qhwudbebd · 1h ago
I think it's pretty much policy by now that GitHub don't allow features to be disabled by users who dislike them. Those of us with public projects that don't or can't accept contributions through GH PRs (including niche things like torvalds/linux) have been asking to disable PRs since day 1.
feverzsj · 3h ago
Since copilot is trained with opensource code, wouldn't more opensource vibe code make the model collapse?
bravetraveler · 1h ago
Not factored into OKRs, unfortunately. Maybe next time. Or never!
skinner927 · 2h ago
That is generally a problem with all AI right now.
cadamsdotcom · 2h ago
Don't panic.
These forced AI shenanigans won't last, just like Clippy in ms word back in the day. Now barely a memory.
They are:
- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749
- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/169148
I recently tried it for our own PRs and it is far from perfect but it was able to find some typos, and I had to explicitly ask it for doing review
am I missing something?
We have OKRs for using AI, yet no dev tooling allowed without customer permission in projects delivery.
So you have this ridiculous situation where the only tool devs are allowed to use is CoPilot 365, and pasting/saving code, for those that care about their OKRs.
If they can get the many GH enterprise users to use copilot on their repos, then for Microsoft the future is merely about optimizing their margins while the technology keeps getting better.
Tech wants the growth, companies consuming this want to be able to do more with less people. The result is the current experience.
(TLDR line go up)
Same reason Google has added AI summary to their most used product: search.
In all seriousness, I was using a different LLM with vscode, and it still kept popping up dialogs about copilot. This is after I had uninstalled the copilot extensions (or at least I tried to uninstall it all).
I'd love for the IDE's like cursor to be able to be an extension on vscode and such, but this type of thing makes it super hard for that to be a reality.
These forced AI shenanigans won't last, just like Clippy in ms word back in the day. Now barely a memory.