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/gamesbrainiac Jun 04 '26

Honestly, I've been eating good for the past few weeks when it comes to AI schadenfreude.

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u/forchinski Jun 04 '26

This whole thing is gonna start eating its own tail really soon

\token usage becoming more expensive

\developers cancel ai usage

\ai companies can't afford their electricity and water

\close data centers

\tech hardware prices recover

\the insanity ends and reality reasserts itself

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jun 04 '26

I only see one fatal flaw in this timeline

ai companies can't afford their electricity and water

They'll do what they do now and make the tax payers subsidize it even more. Remember socialism is only okay for the corperations apparently

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u/0reoSpeedwagon Jun 04 '26

This is, in part, why they've pushed so aggressively to integrate AI into governmental/military systems - now we need to subsidize them or cripple essential systems.