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

[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

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@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)

[phillip@social.lol]

@hub @tessarakt You can block the Copilot desktop app via Intune and group policy rules. You can also disable Copilot integration in Office apps/Edge, removing the icon from all of their UIs. If a user somehow still accesses it, Copilot should show an error about being blocked by the org. That’s been my experience at least.

[antiware@fosstodon.org]

@phillip I would use it to try new ideas and get to the mvp state on code quickly but it isn't available as a cheap toy anymore. rip

I am not against skilled programmers using it to create trivial code for businesses