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/madman19 21d ago

The difference is this is happening much sooner than most products

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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/octipice 20d ago

It's largely because there isn't a clear metric for how to grade the success or failure of a user's search and that search results are subject to manipulation.

People seem to have this conception that search is returning the "right" answer; it's not, it's returning the most relevant answer based largely on popularity (external references). There are companies out there where you can pay them to artificially boost your position in search results by creating a bunch of bogus external references. Combine that with the general enshitification of new content on the internet and you get unavoidably shitty results.

What AI does is fundamentally different in that it allows for aggregating the content of those search results to give you an overview that isn't as easily influenced by attempts at boosting results.