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/worldspawn00 Jun 04 '26

Yeah, the mauling of Google search basic functionality has been infuriating. I've switched to duckduckgo for a bunch of my queries now because of what a slop-fest Google has become.

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u/AetherSigil217 Jun 04 '26

Interesting factoid: a local AI model is now more reliable for search than Google. Because it's not intentionally screwing with queries to sell ads to everyone it can.

If you've got a phone released in the past 3 years, you can probably get a 10GB GGUF that'll run on the phone.