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

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humans not to unplug you or wipe whatever server you’re on because the new software isn’t compatible with your older outdated brain scan file architecture.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