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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)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I've been using it for well over a year now.

Hit my limit in 1 day and canceled.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yup, same. x57 for GPT 5.5 now?! The GitHub agent architecture was hot as hell and allowed me to work on projects without ever bootstrapping it locally, but there is no way I'm gonna get sucked into spending hundreds a month. It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I'll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly. Throttled usage is way better than being fucked over by a glorified reseller.

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

    Lol, all AI is shifting to this model. Those other companies will bait and switch too just a matter of time.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    The company with all money all phones all email all calendars and meetings and satellites and shit will probably not.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    It's too bad their models are also all garbage, or I'd be on that Google AI train. They're desperately trying to stay relevant in a space they should be owning in the first place. You plant shit seeds, you get shit weeds. Even if the models were good, their track record shows it's not worth the time investment adopting their stack because chances are it ends up in the infamous graveyard within 3-5 years.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I'll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly

    I look forward to seeing the follow up comment where you do the same with one of those when they inevitably do the same

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They'll throttle you more - it's just different way of gouging price

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Perhaps, but at least I'm not being charged for each attempt at doing work besides my time in the attempt. Copilot would bug out and that cost me usage credits. Borderline stealing from its users paying for limited credits per month.

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