Virtual pets in your terminal, ads in your pull request, & no more CSS in your browser?

Virtual pets in your terminal, ads in your pull request, & no more CSS in your browser?

From Dev Interrupted by LinearB

April 3, 2026 · 36 min · Season 6 · Episode 25

About this episode

The episode discusses the infiltration of ads in code reviews, a major code leak, and advancements in AI technology.

Are advertisements not-so-secretly infiltrating your code reviews? This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben break down the controversy over GitHub Copilot injecting promotional tips into pull requests and unpack the massive Anthropic code leak that exposed Claude Code's hidden features. The hosts also explore Shopify's strategy for cutting AI inference costs by 75x using smaller, self-hosted models. Finally, they discuss the game-changing Pretext rendering library, the cyclical hype of ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew, Ben

Topics covered

  • code reviews
  • AI inference
  • advertisements
  • software development
  • technology trends

Keywords

  • GitHub Copilot
  • Anthropic
  • Shopify
  • AI
  • code reviews
  • Pretext rendering library

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, Claude Code, Shopify

Products: Pretext rendering library

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