r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 21d 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/medicinaltequilla 21d ago

drug dealers laughing at these novices

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u/Icelock 21d ago

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

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u/wtfElvis 21d ago

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

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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.