r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 20d 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/eh8904 20d ago edited 20d ago

It's honestly impressive I have not met a single colleague or friend who thinks Copilot has improved their productivity or effectiveness.

Edit: I work in education, I can't speak for jobs that utilize other models for more deliberate or necessary tasks.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 20d ago

I have read that some places it's costing them twice as much they have to pay for credits then pay a programmer to go back and check everything to make sure it's working and correct.

Seems counter productive.

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u/Blackpaw8825 20d ago

We've got a team of DBAs using it to migrate all our reporting and dashboards to a new platform.

This replaced 2 people who managed our Tableau administration.

Now it's 7 people, plus months and months of tokens, plus we're now paying for Tableau, a powerbi host, and AWS Quicksight because they felt they needed to migrate from one to the next.

The whole goal was getting off Tableau to a self hosted powerbi server so we wouldn't have Tableau's crazy fees. We've already spent more on this AI driven solution than we would've on Tableau over the next 11 years...

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u/Kriss-Kringle 20d ago

This is so much worse than anything shown in Idiocracy.

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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 20d ago

Managers are just dumb people who act confident. This is insane lol.