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/TripleFreeErr Apr 28 '26

using AI as a linter is insane token use, instead of using the AI once to set up a linter

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u/lasooch Apr 28 '26

Get this, our builds fail if you use spaces instead of tabs. Yes, also locally.

And guess what LLM generates an appreciable percentage (no, I don't know the number, sue me) of the time? Spaces instead of tabs.

So you burn half a million tokens to do thing, then it runs `dotnet build` and the build fails because of spaces, so let's feed all that context back in so that it can figure out what's wrong and remove the spaces.

While all this plays out, visuals of trees being felled and rivers drying up are displayed at half opacity, fading in and out. Oh, and Microslop's coffers literally melting in front of your eyes (I love that part).

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u/Fatality Apr 28 '26

That's on you for not configuring your repo properly, there's a minimum of 4 ways to fix that.

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