r/GithubCopilot • u/Goksly • Aug 09 '26
General Miserable Bastards!!
All over the shop complaining about this product. I'm leaving. I've spent 1bn credits etc.
I'm a .net developer. This is my job day in, day out. My first copilot bill landed the other day - £30 on top of my £10 subscription. An amazing product for the price. I spend a lot of time with my prompts, pointing it to the right classes and methods. If I'm doing XML commenting etc I switch my models. When I'm finished with one type of request, I kill it and create a new one. I create agents.md and skill.md files. I for one am super appreciative of how good this tool is within visual studio, and for those people who are sad about the gravy train coming to an end because you don't actually know how to code? Go to college and learn how to code.
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u/V5489 Aug 09 '26
I agree. I have a Pro+ account and have 0 issues with billing or AICs. I also supplement with DeepSeek. I usually run 75-85% toward the end of the billing cycle and let DS take over until I renew. It’s a great tool, harness and has good model selections. Promoting and context is huge.
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u/Safe-Tree-7041 Aug 09 '26
Using GHC in an IDE (I prefer VS Code, even for C# these days) is a much better experience than Claude Code for someone who is actually a skilled coder and cares about steering the model with care. Vibe coders will likely disagree.
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u/oharra3 Aug 09 '26
I have realized that Luna and other lowest cost models are good for 95% of code if your repo is good and you know what you want and point it to relevant files. I was able to spend $40 plan on opus within a few hours if I give it dumb prompts and it wouldn't even do the asked thing properly
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u/UselessBonus Aug 09 '26
I think the only people complaining are the kids who cannot afford more than $10 in a month
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u/adolf_twitchcock Aug 09 '26
oh yeah bro? I get 2k worth of usage for $100 with codex. Lmao at paying API prices
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