pull request automation

Microsoft’s GitHub has backed away from a Copilot experiment that crossed a line for many developers: inserting promotional “tips” into pull requests that Copilot touched. The backlash was swift, because the change blurred the already sensitive boundary between automated code review and product...

Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot is once again at the center of a messy debate about what counts as helpful product guidance and what starts to look like advertising. What began as a routine AI-assisted pull request edit has now raised a sharper question: when Copilot rewrites a PR description to...