Github Copilot’s new pricing model went live today and r/GithubCopilot is having a meltdown.

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@dawn A screenshot of a dark-themed online comment thread. The first comment by user TheDankestSlav, posted "il y a 4 j", reads, "My suggestion is to bind the multiplier value to the demand a model has at a given time period. Then we can allow people to bet their credits in favor or against said multiplier value. We can also introduce a credit "credit score" system that allows people to get a loan of LLM-use credits that they have to gradually pay back over time." This comment shows 72 upvotes and a "Répondr "Répondre" button. A reply from user ElGuaco, also posted "il y a 4 j", reads, "Easy, Satan." and shows 43 upvotes. At the bottom, a button reads "6 réponses en plus".

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[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@phillip I didn't work today. Let's see if my company (edit: = employer)'s overage budget is already used up by tomorrow.

[phillip@social.lol]

@dawn Did… did they just suggest a loan-based pay-over-time prediction market betting on LLM usage at any given time?

[dawn@social.lol]

@phillip i think that one was ironic but i'm pretty sure this is in the back of a loan shark somewhere

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@phillip

[phillip@social.lol]

@tessarakt Based on what I’m reading, I’d brace yourself for some irrationally frustrated devs. And here I am blocking Copilot in Github and throughout our Microsoft org

[phillip@social.lol]

@dawn Silicon Valley capitalists have consistently used sci-fi as an instruction set. We need to stop giving them ideas

[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@phillip I'm not a manager, so what do you mean by "brace yourself"? Bring popcorn?

[phillip@social.lol]

@tessarakt Ah, then in your case, yes! Enjoy the show

[wq@vim.wtf]

@phillip

I been slopped.

all my tokens gone.

[heavyimage@mastodon.social]

@phillip omg I wish I didn’t enjoy this so much. Thank you.

[heavyimage@mastodon.social]

@phillip @dawn *slop giving them ideas

[drikanis@mstdn.ca]

@phillip we've already had devs blow through their limit, it's really funny.

[phillip@social.lol]

@drikanis cLaUdE wOuLd NeVeR dO tHiS!

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@dawn @phillip Need to close Mastodon... nearly hurt myself laughing.

[phillip@social.lol]

@minentromaxinfo I have learned a new word today. Nice!

[hub@cosocial.ca]

@phillip @tessarakt you can block it now?

[phillip@social.lol]

@hub @tessarakt You can disable it org-wide in Github. There are myriad ways to block Copilot and Recall on Windows, though they seem to break without rhyme or reason. Copilot showed back up on my machine despite being blocked via Intune. I haven’t had time to dig back into that yet though

[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@hub @phillip Oh, I was specifically referring to our big corpo's enterprise subscription to Github Copilot.

[hub@cosocial.ca]

@phillip @tessarakt what I want is to block it from ever doing anything. You can block a user from an org, but not copilot ("block" used to be 404, they removed "block" to fix the 404)