Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company’s AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.
The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.
The article kind of lines out how they interpret ‘extend’ here, but as you say, it isn’t perfect. Perhaps ‘eeritate’ or ‘egg on’ would fit better. Elbow?