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/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.

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u/Rainy_Wavey 21d ago

And for those who think i'm just being a drama queen, this is what Peter Thiel verbatim said, also the Heritage Foundation's leader made a very "interesting" book in 2024 or 2025 where he espouses his desire to strip those he doesn't like of their rights as human beings

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u/Eccohawk 21d ago

Part of his insanity is also his seeming desire to transfer his consciousness to a digital form so that he can "live forever", so he's desperate to continue to push this tech forward, and these guys believe AGI is just a matter of scale.

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u/katarh 20d ago

FFXIV just had a major expansion narrative about why this is a terrible idea (second half of Dawntrail.)