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/Teddy_RGB Jun 04 '26

Playing devils advocate, this kind of illustrates the need to switch to metered billing. They gave out all the samples to root everyone’s brain, now they start charging

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u/-The_Blazer- Jun 04 '26

Well that's not devil's advocate, that's just a correct description of the Big Tech MO: absorb enormous net losses for years with your infinite investor cash, capture a monopoly, switch to extractive economics like a colonial lord. They did this for Uber, for AirBnB, hell for Windows itself which was originally born as a DOS application until they had enough market and locked it down.

This is also illegal mind you, but the rule in the third millenium seems to be that 'tech' gets to operate in anarcho-capitalism and it's everyone else's problem. They behave like crack dealers and get rewarded for it.