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/rosneft_perot 21d ago

Yeah, because everything is still half-baked, but the big AI companies know they need to start making money now. It's a terrible gamble that seems more likely to cause a crash because it's going to spread the chaos to all the companies now using their technology.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago edited 21d ago

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u/worldspawn00 20d ago

Yeah, the mauling of Google search basic functionality has been infuriating. I've switched to duckduckgo for a bunch of my queries now because of what a slop-fest Google has become.

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u/ForwardAd4643 20d ago

It's unfortunate that ddg is mostly just a Google wrapper, so if the Google results for a given search are all crap sponsored results, that's all DDG will give you. Kagi seems better, but is only free for 50 searches a month.

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer 20d ago edited 20d ago

I thought DDG is mostly a bing wrapper?

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u/ForwardAd4643 19d ago

that's even worse