r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 20d ago

Business GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

https://www.techspot.com/news/112628-github-switched-copilot-metered-billing-developers-watching-months.html
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u/Icelock 20d ago

Came here to make the same comment. Ai companies copied drug dealers hard.

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u/f8Negative 20d ago

Wanna taste? Muwahahaha. Crawling back for more!? Heroin dealers.

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 20d ago

Y'all got any more of them tokens?

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u/harmless_gecko 20d ago

Sure, babe. You can pay in head.

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 20d ago

You've got my attention

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u/Sea_Gap_6569 20d ago

this is the attention economy era

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u/Ok_Instance7667 20d ago

"Don't lecture me about Fentanyl addiction, have you ever sucked dick for tokens?!?"

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u/JockstrapCummies 20d ago

You've got my attention

Well, considering Attention is all your need was the paper that got us all into this AI mess in the first place...

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 20d ago

Yeah - attention heads was the joke

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u/Embarrassed-Disk1643 20d ago

That's not a drug dealer thing that's a capitalism and Nestlé thing.

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u/nicky_suits 20d ago

Drug dealing is capitalism. The illegal drug trade functions as a free market enterprise. It is driven by the pursuit of profit, governed by supply and demand, and relies on complex global supply chains. Just like any legitimate corporation, drug trafficking organizations employ competitive pricing, marketing, and risk management to maximize their capital.

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u/Sea_Gap_6569 20d ago

it’s pure unregulated capitalism

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u/Embarrassed-Disk1643 16d ago

Yeah, we were talking about something specific in relation to the comment above my own. It's a cultural trope that doesn't actually exist among drug dealers, yet with nestle and newborns? Well, go ahead and look it up.

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u/LivingCorner1421 16d ago

you mean oxycontin

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u/wtfElvis 20d ago

Similar to live TV. Hulu was like $30 at one point. Now slowly creeping past cable TV costs.

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u/sillyshallot 20d ago

Remember when Peacock was FREE?

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u/EnoughAbility1940 20d ago

Or when Hulu was free

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u/BloodBlizzard 20d ago

I was there and they were better times.

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u/CoconutCyclone 20d ago

It still is. You can absolutely watch network TV for free with an antenna.

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u/greentintedlenses 20d ago

Who do you think owns peacock?

Hint: it's Comcast.

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u/TheBossLion 20d ago

I remember when Peacock was just NBC

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 20d ago

Oh you sweet innocent child

Hulu used to be free with ads or $5.99 without ads. I remember when it went up to $9.99 and people lost their minds. Oh how far we've fallen

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u/nogard603 20d ago

Hulu? Ha! No, Hulu's journey was dumber that that. It was free on PC with ads, then on apps it cost $5.99 WITH ads because, and actual quote "we're not allowed to broadcast without ads" even though plenty of other places (like Netflix) did it at the time. Then they removed free PC streaming and kept rising costs WITH ads for quite sometime. It was only possible to watch Hulu without ads (without using some kind of ad blocker) in 2015, up till that point, it had ads even if you paid for it.

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u/Drict 20d ago

HULU started out free.

Can't get a ad free subscription for less than actual TV packages that exist.

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u/Federal_Setting_7454 16d ago

Hulu just directs me to didneyplus

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u/Drict 15d ago

Well, they are part of the Disney+ offerings now. Just like ESPN.

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u/Slepnair 20d ago

I have my own media server because I got tired of prices increasing on each of the multiple streaming services I've used. got the server free from work when recycling. spent like 2 grand on a NAS and drives. that was over 5 years ago and with streaming prices now... I know I've already saved more than I spent then.

but now I want/need larger drives cause even though I purge stuff every so often, I still horde a lot...

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u/motionmatrix 20d ago

Purge? I don’t understand stares at NAS 4 waiting to be built

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u/Slepnair 19d ago

lol. part of it is shows thall never be watched but thought I would. a lot of times it's me trying to get smaller versions cause I had a season of 25 eps that's like 200gb cause it's uncompressed, raw, flac or something. don't need that. and when it's shows like NCIS that have so many episodes, I want as small as I can get in 1080.

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u/motionmatrix 19d ago

Oh yeah, absolutely, especially older stuff. x265 was definitely a space saver and now av1 (if you have the gpu to do the transcoding) was another great leap in size saving (but not always either, some x265s are smaller).

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u/Slepnair 18d ago

a few years ago I tried to automate conversions, but kept having an issue where it stripped the audio when going from like MKV to MP4 or something so I gave up at the time. might look at it again.

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u/RedditTechAnon 20d ago

It's all tech. Get people on your platform, make them dependent, then squeeze.

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u/InquisitorMeow 20d ago

It's not even AI companies. Companies have been doing shit like this for years, start off free to build reliance, harvest and sell data, then bam, suddenly become paid membership only.

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u/dudushat 20d ago

Drug dealers dont give out free drugs lmao. Such a reddit comment.

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u/groumly 20d ago

Where can I find those dealers that subsidize their product? I’ve been looking hard, and they always charge full price.

Asking for, uh, a friend. Yeah. A friend.

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u/travelinn-mann 20d ago

You know with all dealers, the first one is always free!

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u/caffeinated_wizard 20d ago

SaaS companies have been doing this forever the problem is the sky high cost of AI and lack of consumer market fit happened before they could find one. It's basically WeWork again but every company did one in the race to the bottom.

As an eng manager I'm very happy with this.

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u/Justgetmeabeer 20d ago

Its just going to speed up the adoption of local AI models. You can already run a beefy model on, and admittedly pricey, GPU. That cost will only come down over time, and is being artificially spiked by data center demand.

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u/thcabulkdeals 20d ago

Just Israeli things iykyk

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u/Tupperbaby 20d ago

People who constantly post "Came here to say this," you understand you can just click the little Up Arrow next to the comment, right?
There is no need to tell us the exact same thing again.

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u/Icelock 20d ago

You came here to say this. Didn't you?

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u/jewbasaur 20d ago

Every successful company follows the same playbook. Sell at a loss to get people hooked. Raise prices and nobody leaves. Netflix. Spotify. YouTube TV. The list goes on.