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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 68 points 5 months ago (16 children)

This isn't enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven't captured the market enough for that. They're just panicking because they're burning cash way too fast.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    That word is only used correctly about 5% of the times it is used.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Are suggesting the word itself has become enshittified?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Don't wanna be "that guy", but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean "greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck", then that just is what that word means now.

    It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that's how she goes.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And then everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I wholeheartedly agree. I love when I hear a new word, and a mushy concept just snaps into focus. Like, yea, I understood that concept in my "gut" but had not special word for it? So gratifying.

    Feels like theft when it gets appropriated to something else.

    Glad to hear Cory is cool w/ it. Putting a word (even by accident) to a poorly-expresable part of the human experience that let's people communicate more effectively? That is a contribution to society that most of us only dream of. Fucker did it by accident. Thrilled for him.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think saying AI is being enshittified is too far from the orignal essay

    This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

    The AI companies were definitely subsidizing usage of the tech in the hopes of getting people locked in. Don't think people are all that locked in. Probably some people are, suppliers like NVIDIA seem pretty locked in. But I don't think there's all that much to direct to shareholders relative to what they put into it to try to get lock in.

    So it's kinda failed enshittification? Premature enshittification... preshittification?

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    "They're burning cash too fast"

    Their most recent earnings was 82.9B just last quarter, you don't know what you're talking about.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Ah yes. Of course, all of Microsoft just exists to subsidize GitHub AI tool usage.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Well given the number of developers they canned so they could dump more money into the AI money pit, they kinda were heading that direction. But I guess they clued in that there might be a small problem with that business model.

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