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I love how corpos can just change the rules at will.

Edit: New prices:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing

And if you look at the old pricing structure, some of the models are increasing by 27x

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 50 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

watch me go back to debugging like a real engineer: copying and pasting from stack overflow

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

Stack overflow is not what it used to be

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

at this rate, it will be

[–] XLE@piefed.social 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The good news is that none of the companies pushing these products have created the dependency yet, and they are running out of venture capital almost too fast to have the option.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope you're right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don't think they can stop using AI because they just don't have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I'm sure they're not alone.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They would pay nearly any price

Literally any price except paying skilled employees.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

That costs actual money though

For the cost of one employee you can give 5 employees AI and tell them to work 10x faster while they have to wrestle the stupid AI.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 40 minutes ago

You aren't wrong, but even if LLMs didn't exist, employers would invent a scapegoat to make the same demands of their employees.