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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I love how corpos can just change the rules at will.

Edit: New prices:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing

And if you look at the old pricing structure, some of the models are increasing by 27x

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[–] 104 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).

holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That's been their business model for a while now. "Here's something you also didn't ask for"

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I love that their email made it sound like it was a wash, like "we're just changing our billing model, you'll get credits now, samesies!" but then this pricing chart buried 3-levels down from the announcement lays out just how much less you're going to get for the same price.

    I wonder about all the startups who were bragging about their $10k/month AI coding bills being the best money they ever spent. When this new pricing kicks in and pushes it to $40k/month right around the time all the vibe-coded shit blows up their codebase, I wonder if they'll still be so happy with their choices.

    I interviewed for a place a while back and started asking about quality and velocity and how they balance it with AI developer tools, he said something like "One of our developers closed 400 PRs last month" and I instantly knew it was definitely not the place for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    So, did they use AI tools to type "LGTM" 400 times or nah?

    But yeah, I also find that frustrating. Management just looks at terrible metrics like PRs closed or lines of code produced.
    It's not even novel that you can produce terrible code very quickly. Decades ago, our industry learned that it isn't worth it, because you suffer for it later. Now the game is altered slightly and management demands that we throw all these learnings out the window.

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