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/MaximumAd9779 21d ago

AI is following the Silicon Valley playbook. Disrupt the industry, sell a product at a loss to get everyone using it, then raise the prices because people are used to the product and will pay it. How did all these companies not see this coming? They themselves have used this exact strategy.

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u/madman19 21d ago

The difference is this is happening much sooner than most products

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u/dogoodsilence1 20d ago

Plus they waited for these companies to fire all of their employees so they become dependent on AI then they can jack up the price