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Looks like GitHub users are going to have to pay their actual cost for CoPilot

Posted by ATL

on May 16, 2026, 19:45:28, in reply to "Which ones is a bubble and when does it pop?"

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mlvw4kydv22v

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what-if-were-in-an-ai-bubble-part-1/

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

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Which ones is a bubble and when does it pop?

- doubledown May 14, 2026, 19:50:14 [poll]

Looks like GitHub users are going to have to pay their actual cost for CoPilot - ATL Yesterday, 19:45:28

One developer posted this - ATL Yesterday, 19:48:51

Hallucinated citations becoming more and more common in scholarly papers - Lancet - ATL May 14, 2026, 22:37:27
- Lazy authors of research papers thinking they need 10 more citations will always be a thing. - voiceofreason May 15, 2026, 7:23:48
  - Not only do tools to check sources exist, they can pretty reliably tell you if the source aligns - doubledown May 15, 2026, 7:28:54
- A lot of that could be a skill issue and tooling. Reasoning models hallucinate a lot, so - doubledown May 15, 2026, 7:09:45
Here’s a sign that AI might be an overhyped bubble - ATL May 14, 2026, 20:46:17
- Might as well take a stack of $100 bills and light them on fire - jfinsocal May 15, 2026, 8:34:36
- Open AI - memyselfandillini May 14, 2026, 22:06:07

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