Topic: Copilot

17 mentions · 15 chunks · 13 episodes

11.7× distinctiveness vs baseline
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Topic summary

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  • Copilot appears in 15 chunks across 13 episodes, from 2024-07-01 to 2026-04-20.
  • Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/30/24 (2024-09-30), with 2 observations on this topic.
  • Semantically it travels with GitHub, wild west, and wild west roundup, while by chunk count it sits between privacy model and Stratechery; its yearly rank moved from #98 in 2024 to #75 in 2026.

Over time

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Mean 1.2 mentions per episode across the full range2024-07-01: 1 mention2024-07-08: 1 mention2024-09-30: 2 mentions2024-12-02: 1 mention2025-01-27: 1 mention2025-05-19: 1 mention2025-07-14: 1 mention2025-08-18: 1 mention2025-10-13: 2 mentions2025-10-27: 1 mention2026-01-19: 1 mention2026-03-02: 1 mention2026-04-20: 1 mention2024-07-01: 12024-07-08: 12024-09-30: 22024-12-02: 12025-01-27: 12025-05-19: 12025-07-14: 12025-08-18: 12025-10-13: 22025-10-27: 12026-01-19: 12026-03-02: 12026-04-20: 12024-07-012025-07-142026-04-20

Observations

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This week in the Wild West Roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 4/20/26 ·

...jection in the comments. 'Comment and Control': Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot Agents Vulnerable to Prompt Injection via Comments. The Register: Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft ha...

This week in the Wild West roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 3/2/26 ·

...w Vulnerability: Website-to-Local Agent Takeover. RoguePilot: Exploiting GitHub Copilot for a Repository Takeover. An AI Chat App leaked 300 million messages due to misconfigured Firestore Security Rules. This is the kind of thing that h...

This week in the wild west roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 10/27/25 ·

...t Injection Attack Demo : Here's What Every Developer Should Know Microsoft 365 Copilot allows arbitrary data exfiltration via Mermaid diagrams. Google Gemini's own demo breaks Google's own captchas without asking the user for permission...

This week in the wild west roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 ·

...in the wild west roundup: A RCE where prompt injection can trivially get GitHub Copilot into YOLO mode. ASCII smuggling of prompt injection across various LLMs. Google refuses to fix it because "it's the user's responsibility." Responsib...

Avoid the Copilot Pause

from Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 ·

Avoid the Copilot Pause When interacting with agents, they do work and then ask for your judgment. If there's one agent, either the human or the agent is blocking on t...