GitHub Copilot drops flat-rate billing and developers are not pleased

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GitHub-Copilot-drops-flat-rate-billing-and-developers-are-not-pleased.1313272.0.html

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6 Comments

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 84d

With a 1:1 usage:cost relationship, how else could this be priced? Other than to take the 90th percentile usage and peg pricing there - which would just have subscriptions cancelled outright.

fizzbang@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 84d (3 replies)

Good luck maintaining your custom blog with 35000 of bullshit code. This has to be the most obvious rugpull

MadhuGururajan@programming.dev · 5 pts · 82d (2 replies)

it's also the most freudian event some of us were waiting for. It will be quite the punch in the gut for shitty bean counter types who fired developers that made their record profits.

ghodawalaaman@programming.dev · 2 pts · 82d (1 reply)

I am pretty sure they won't rehire them instead will increase workload of others

MadhuGururajan@programming.dev · 1 pts · 77d

Lol good luck trying to make one of the most notoriously spiteful group of workers comply with that one. (I am in that group btw)

Laser@feddit.org · 6 pts · 84d

Hilarious