Well, welcome back to the channel and me

talking about Microsoft. Now, I know

this is turning into a weekly ritual

where uh Microsoft is going to do

something stupid and then we're going to

make fun of it on this channel. But

today, it was so bad. It was so

unbelievable. I actually didn't believe

it. When I saw it, I said, "No, no, no,

no. This is one This is It's almost

April, fools. Okay, it's almost April

1st. I'm not going to fall for this kind

of gag." Okay, this is one of those

little foreplay, a little pre-warmup to

the actual big game on April 1st. Not

this time. Not me. But I was wrong. This

is in fact not a joke. This is in fact

Microsoft doing perhaps the dumbest

thing I have ever seen Microsoft do.

And this says a lot. This says a lot

because a this same company also had a

remote code execution vulnerability

added to Notepad. Yes, Notepad. the

thing in which has not changed since

1995 only for the last year to start

changing it and then immediately become

a security vulnerability. Thanks Notepad

team for that markdown vulnerability.

Just a just a real winner from all of

us. All right, enough with the yapping.

Let me show you the news line that kind

of caught my eye. Microsoft Co-Pilot is

now injecting ads into poll requests on

GitHub. If this does not send a shiver

down your spine, you have no soul, my

friend. Okay, you need to go. You need

to go bathe in HOLY WATER. STOP. JOEY,

STOP THE RECORDING. HEY, HEY, HEY. It

turns out news has changed so fast I

couldn't even get this video out. So,

yes, there actually was what appeared to

be ads inside a poll request being made

by Copilot or even being lightly touched

up by Copilot. And yes, the feature or

the feature has already been pulled.

Okay, so to kind of show you what it

looked like and why everyone thinks it

looks like an ad, this is what it says.

Quickly spin up a co-pilot coding agent

tasks from anywhere on your Mac OS or

Windows machine with Raycast. Now,

Raycast does make a lovely product.

We've actually done a little partnership

and made some coffee for them way back

in the day. I can't imagine that Raycast

was probably too happy to see this

so-called definitely not an ad placement

on everybody's PR that co-pilot touched.

Like, no. Seriously, look at this. After

a team member summoned Co-Pilot to

correct a typo in the PR of mine,

Copilot had edited the PR description.

It included an ad for itself and

Raycast. So, you could imagine there was

some people, you know, panicking a

little bit. Okay, people were a little

bit uh shocked at what they were seeing.

So, in just a few hours, it ended up

that 11.4,000

PRs had this extra definitely not an

advertisement added to it. In

Microsoft's defense, to be fair, they

also had a hidden comment that said,

"Start Cop-ilot coding agent tips." I

mean, these guys legitimately thought

that this felt like a tip and definitely

not an advertisement. Really? Third

party link and everything. And it also

sounds just like it just Yeah, I can't

tell why. Why would uh why would this

sound like an ad? I'm just telling you,

yo, you could quickly just spin stuff up

with our partners at Raycast. But

swiftly, pretty early on in the day, it

turns out that they disabled it right

away because the product tips were just

supposed to be little helpers, but then

apparently it just spread everywhere.

Our goal was to share novel ways to use

C-Pilot coding agent. And in this case,

we highlighted our integration with

Raycast as part of a broader set of

product tips, but this was surfaced more

frequently than intended alongside other

feature suggestions. See, the thing is

is I may have a bath towel on, but

underneath every good bath towel is a

tin foil hat. I'm not even sure. I I

honestly I'm not even sure if this is

actually the truth or if they were

trying out something that was a bit

experimental because as of right now,

GitHub is uh they they're kind of down

bad. Okay, they've had 90 incidences in

90 days, giving them a total of 90.84%

uptime. They do have three nines. It

just happens to be in the amount of

incidences, the amount of days, and the

amount of uptime kind of spread equally

between them all. Also kind of fun side

story. If they screw up one more time,

they'll have more incidences than they

have percents of being up. [laughter]

Dude, you got 5 days, Git not to screw

this up, okay? You have to make it all

the way past January 5th. See, the thing

is is that I actually I I do feel bad

for a lot of the people working on

GitHub. Uh because we've all

accidentally made some oopsy daisies.

Like, if you haven't done something

stupid in production, honestly, are are

you even a programmer? No. That's

because programming actually turns out

to be quite difficult. And it does turn

out that implementation in fact does

matter. But I think the thing that

really just gets all of us devs is we do

see this uptime. I mean, you can't go a

day or two without seeing a unicorn for

a little bit on GitHub. And yet, what's

their focus? Their focus is on

increasing co-pilot usage. That's what

this was. This pro tip was really just a

means to increase more co-pilot usage

such that some VP somewhere can get that

pat on the back and that big, you know,

seven figure bonus for making the

company's bottom line get bigger because

they're doing what the company needs

more of, which is AI adoption instead of

just doing what everybody actually wants

them to do. Quit fumbling the bag on

GitHub. This is one of those rare

moments where I I genuinely do feel we

are watching the downfall of something

that I just I could have never been

convinced would have fallen down. I

think the saddest part about this whole

thing is I just got done sitting down

with someone who formerly was at GitHub

during, you know, the heyday of GitHub,

the 2012 to 2018 era. And he was talking

about how GitHub's engineering was

really excellent. They had some of the

best uptime. They're providing a service

everybody could use. And when Microsoft

took over, he just knew right away like

this this is the end of that era. We are

entering into a new era in which people

will not look at GitHub as the shining

star, but instead it's going to become

the lol cow of the dev world. And it's

this message that just perfectly

encapsulates everything. They're still

ad nauseium pushing AI features while at

the same time not prioritizing the

things that actually matter to devs on a

platform specifically designed for devs.

So, even though this definitely not an

ad, just happened to be mentioning a

third party and completely looks like an

ad, is definitely not an ad, is being

cancelled, it just makes me realize just

how out of touch Microsoft truly is. And

again, the reason why GitHub is under

the core AI of Microsoft is because it's

not going to be a coding platform, it is

an AI platform. And as much as I don't

want to believe that, this right here

just reminds me completely where the

real priorities are at. The name is I

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