Throwaway account because I'm not entirely sure and don't want any hate from examples I mentioned. They're just examples - I'm sure everyone is doing this now.

I came across 'reply guy'[0], an 'AI that plugs your product on Reddit and Twitter', a while back. It is so blatant about its 'pay us to piss in the pond' model that I'm surprised that they are not getting more hate for something so obviously destructive to the internet commons.

Then today I saw this post[1] from Sourcegraph saying that they 'love to see feedback in the wild' , and I was suspicious that it was an occurrence of the same or something similar, so I searched for the reddit user and 'sourcegraph' and see that this 'fanboy' who is 'not affiliated' has plugged Sourcegraph 20 times in the last few days, always in a similar structure, mentioning the price and how happy he is with the product.

The same user has a pretty extensive reddit comment history, so I guess there's a small chance that it legitimately is just a 'fanboy' as it claims, but I am 99% sure that that is not the case.

So PSA to be cautious with any 'human' recommendations you see online.

[0] https://replyguy.com/

[1] https://pasteboard.co/ojRpsqgvB92i.png

[2] https://www.reddit.com/user/prolacticus/search/?q=sourcegraph&type=comment