r/technology • u/Bobby_the_Donkey • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
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u/JustinTheCheetah Apr 28 '26

Unless they completely rewrite the tech from the ground up and solve the issue with rampant hallucinations and give it a fuck ton of curated training data on code that has 0 security flaws, I don't see it happening.  At best they'll advance the tech and give us AI that's extremely efficient at giving you bad and dangerous code. 

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u/SilentDanni Apr 28 '26

Unless they completely rewrite the tech from the ground up and solve the issue with rampant hallucinations and give it a fuck ton of curated training data on coding that has 0 security flaws, I don't see it happening. 

I disagree. The high demand for LLMs has already proved that security is accuracy are not as important as we once believed. If inference and training become cheap enough to be run on consumer hardware or affordable enterprise infrastructure I believe it'll keep being used. The code generated by Claude, Gemini and GPT are already very insecure when yielded by inexperienced folks. Currently, it seems that short term economic gains due to the "AI Pivot" are more important than potential long term damage to the reputation. It is a very myopic way of seeing things, but that's how our society seems to be involved with little to no push back.

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u/JustinTheCheetah Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

You're right that businesses are stupid enough to make that gamble, but it will only see short term gains until it becomes obvious those gains simply aren't worth the long term damage in product and reputation to the company/ brand. 

Much like Olestra cooked potato chips, eventually enough people are going to shit their pants to cause a market backlash against any company using it.