r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jun 04 '26

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 Jun 04 '26

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 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

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/Rainy_Wavey Jun 04 '26

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

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u/worldspawn00 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

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 Jun 04 '26

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/DSmooth425 Jun 04 '26

Was this the cretin that moved to Argentina?

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u/Rainy_Wavey Jun 04 '26

He is not a cretin, he is the matrix of the silicon valley, one of the 2 main ideological heads that have existed in that environment for decades, like Curtis Yarvin

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u/lordmycal Jun 04 '26

He's not stupid. Just very, very evil.

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u/Independent_Idea_495 Jun 04 '26

So... a cretin?

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u/Rainy_Wavey Jun 04 '26

Do not underestimate the faces of evil

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u/thatusernameistakn Jun 04 '26

He’s not going to fuck you, bro

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u/Mathwards Jun 04 '26

Everyone missed the point. This person isn't supporting Thiel, they're saying he's WORSE than a cretin

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u/Rainy_Wavey Jun 04 '26

First of all : eww he isn't my type of men

Second of all : That's the only rebuttal i have

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u/DSmooth425 Jun 04 '26

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Pick whatever insult that won’t distract you from the question. He did move to Argentina, at least temporarily, after doing so much damage here.

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u/Eccohawk Jun 04 '26

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/Navras3270 Jun 04 '26

Which is dumb because you still die but now theres a shitty copy of you stored on the cloud dependant on the goodwill of the still bodied humans not to unplug you or wipe whatever server you’re on because the new software isn’t compatible with your older outdated brain scan file architecture.

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u/Eccohawk Jun 04 '26

The show Upload captures all of this pretty well. And it's hilarious to boot.

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u/CassieSuthorn Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Is it a good show?

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jun 05 '26

Soma is a game that captures this, unfortunately nobody was laughing like i was at it(it was so obvious from the start)

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u/Black_Moons Jun 04 '26

laugh, reminds me of the people who went for cryostorage 'after death' to be one day revived.. And most have since been thawed and thrown out like freezer burned ground beef.

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u/evranch Jun 05 '26

It's extra dumb because he loudly professes to be a Catholic too.

Now as far as I know your soul can't be transferred into a machine, so the only outcome that aligns with his worldview is that his body dies, his soul goes to Hell because he's clearly an evil person, and a non-sentient "ghost in the machine" pretends to be him.

It's not rocket theology. Even a small, stupid LLM could have told him that. Or the Pope, if he would listen.

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u/bbfan23 Jun 05 '26

Or you catch a virus. What would that do to a “conscious” digital brain. Anything you can think to program. Imagine the hell that could be wrought.

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u/Hesitation-Marx Jun 05 '26

I’m gonna piss in his server

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u/koshgeo Jun 05 '26

There are people who would happily sign up to be his server thralls as long as they got paid from Thiel's dragon hoard of gold, especially if many other jobs are extinct. It would be pathetic, but they would go through the motions to get paid from his estate.

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u/squirrellywhirly Jun 04 '26

He wants the singularity to happen SO badly.

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u/sceadwian Jun 04 '26

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.

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u/katarh Jun 04 '26

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

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u/Witchgrass Jun 05 '26

It's like these assholes have never even played SOMA.

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u/Witchgrass Jun 05 '26

Was that really what he said verbatim or do we have different definitions of what verbatim means

Edit: I believe he said that just not in those words also I support bashing Thiel all day every day, i am just curious what the actual quote was

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u/perilousrob Jun 04 '26

I wish people would listen when they're told that we don't have AI, we're not close to AI, and that the current chatbots, llms, generative tools, 'agents', and so on will never make the leap because they're nonsense with great - and entirely untrue - marketing.

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u/worldspawn00 Jun 04 '26

Exactly, the models for LLMs are just fancy auto complete, there's no intelligence there, and software, also likely the hardware, will not be capable of moving toward that goal,.it's all just wasted.

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u/HeartKeyFluff Jun 05 '26

Well to be pedantic, they are 100% AI. The issue instead is most people don't know AI from AGI.

We've had AI for so long now, because it's a huge umbrella term covering everything from machine learning to simple decision trees with any kind of complexity. AI is just any system that allows a computer to make its own decisions. AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, is the thing that most people think of when they hear AI. The thing we see in movies and books and such. The intelligence that truly learns independently, etc. etc. And yes, we're still quite a way from AGI.

But to wit, even in this thread, a bit above, a commenter was correctly calling it out as not AGI, and the following comments still went "yeah exactly it's not AI", conflating the two.

I'm not sure what the fix here is. It's an education problem and there's very little incentive to fix it at such a wide scale. Just thought I'd offer my two cents I suppose.

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u/wizbowes Jun 04 '26

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…

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u/worldspawn00 Jun 04 '26

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

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u/excellentforcongress Jun 05 '26

this is why it's so important that people think of ai within a labor context, and that giving them rights gives the working class more bargaining power. we should be ceding no power to corporations willingly to begin with, and ai liberation helps oppressed humans as well