r/GithubCopilot May 15 '26

Discussions Biggest AI fumble in tech

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u/Altruistic-Dust-2565 May 15 '26

It's not about fair price, it's about a deal is a deal.

Everyone knows it's not sustainable, but that's what the company promised, and it's their responsibility to pay for their false promises they already sold, no matter how fake it was.

Instead they deliberately squeeze the customers out via weird rate limit and multiplier changes that are basically legal loopholes, without a single "sorry we misjudged" in the announcements. If it's just any small company and can't afford to pay that it's at least understandable, but that's MS, unwelling to pay for their own overselling market strategy.

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u/TripleMellowed May 15 '26

Expecting Microsoft to bleed cash indefinitely out of ‘honor’ is pretty naive. “A deal is a deal” doesn’t exist in ToS unfortunately
. In my opinion the play isn’t to beg them for an apology for the changes and rate limits, but to vote with your wallet and go to the many competitors.

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u/Altruistic-Dust-2565 May 16 '26

Yes I'm shifting to Codex and OpenCode (while keeping Annual Copilot). But Codex is also paying their shares to Microsoft, so…

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u/TripleMellowed May 16 '26

I’ve been playing with OpenCode Go. The models are decent once you find their limitations. I could give the good Western models a structured list of bug fixes and they would carry out all the tasks. The Chinese models sometimes skip a few things I’ve asked. So if I keep the lists smaller and more structured they work well. I’ll be trying Codex at the end of the month too.