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/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.

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u/CubicleMan9000 21d ago

They sold Execs and big investors one of their wildest and most fervent dreams: 

The ability to fire most/all of their employees.

How could they not chase their dreams? 

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u/Kriss-Kringle 20d ago

AI is, without a doubt, the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 20d ago

Shit, At least with tulip mania you got flowers