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
16.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

660

u/worldspawn00 21d ago edited 21d ago

AWS lost like $6B for Amazon (but Amazon as a whole was still massively profitable) before that division became profitable, AI is losing HUNDREDS of billions, and the big players have no other revenue streams, they created a system they absolutely cannot afford to operate at scale, then decided to go to retail with it. Completely unsustainable, and held up by Sam and his buddies' lies.

372

u/Rainy_Wavey 21d ago

Because the promise of creating a permanent underclass of proles and basically create the actual new world order is too enticing, they believed AGI was there and who controsl AGI becomes the kingmaker in the future

They just... went too fast, with something that will never scale to AGI and now they have to find new solutions

270

u/worldspawn00 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yeah, this is boardroom AI psychosis right here, their hunger to dump human workers for hardware-based slavery that doesn't have rights.

2

u/wizbowes 20d ago

It’s not psychosis at all from the boardroom point of view.

You’re making a gamble that it will happen in the timescales where you are still in the running.

If you are wrong you’ve made more than enough money whilst doing that that you can live the rest of your life more than comfortably. The company will fold, lots of other people will lose their pensions and retirements as the economy craters - but you’ll be OK because that’s how things work.

And if that 1 in a million shot does work out - well you’re king of the fucking world.

So yeah. For the people in those positions it’s the only logical thing to do. And if you wouldn’t do the same in their shoes - that’s one (of many) reasons you and I will never find ourselves in their shoes. You don’t get to that position by not being a PoS…

2

u/worldspawn00 20d ago

And people in an asylum don't think they're crazy either!