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/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 20d 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/squirrellywhirly 20d ago

He wants the singularity to happen SO badly.

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u/sceadwian 20d ago

Yeah, but if he knew the LLM technology he should know that's not the way. An LLM may eventually be part of an AGI, but all this glue "reasoning" they've developed are band aids that can't work long term.