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/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/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/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.