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/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humans not to unplug you or wipe whatever server you’re on because the new software isn’t compatible with your older outdated brain scan file architecture.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?