I mean, if AI gets too expensive, companies can always hire juniors to replace them π€£
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Gonna be hilarious when the people who haven't been paying attention realize that they just replaced workers with shit that doesn't work AND actually costs more.
Yep, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that if you really want to drop juniors and give tools to seniors, then you have to pay the monthly cost (whatever it will be) and you have to be ready to foot the big bill in 5 years when your seniors (with no candidate replacements) say they'll take a 50% raise or walk.
This is the right way to go. This will incentivize many companies to rethink their strategy, and slow down or scale down AI adoption. After that and the revenue drops for many AI companies, they will back off purchasing all possible RAM and storage in existence which will drive down pricing. And when the prices get to normal again, we will simply buy more RAM for our local machines and run free models.
This news kinda makes me happy. Shit's starting to fall apart. Finally.
Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).
holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS
They should really describe this as youβre on the same plan, but your plan gives you 80-88% less use.
That's been their business model for a while now. "Here's something you also didn't ask for"
You're looking at Claude, I don't See Copilot
Edit: ignore me, I finally reviewed the article and is through GH, not actual MS 365 page.
copilot isnt amodel. its a front end that lets ypu pick a model. that table shows usage costs.
Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.
watch me go back to debugging like a real engineer: copying and pasting from stack overflow
Stack overflow is not what it used to be
at this rate, it will be
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.
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.
They would pay nearly any price
Literally any price except paying skilled employees.
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.
You aren't wrong, but even if LLMs didn't exist, employers would invent a scapegoat to make the same demands of their employees.
Getting de-skilled is starting to look like a very expensive gamble and this is just the first price hike, expect more to come. And expect them to criminalize open source models as well with some national security concerns or something.
Inline completions are genuinely useful, Iβm mostly replacing them with local models though. They are slower but free as in beer (once you pay the hardware cost).
I'm interested in setting it up, are you using vs code? Which extension or editor?
Iβm using vim with minuet-ai, and it plugs the AI suggestion into my completion module. I found the Copilot style virtual text interfaces all janky.
So, not free. Just capital expense instead of operational.
Sure, but hopefully small code completion (2-4b range) models can run locally on a lot of things. Theyβre just less good.
Claude is cutting back on usage policy for pro usersβ¦
GitHub CoPilot is now doing it tooβ¦
Itβs not hard to see the future, AI companies bought up all the RAM creating a shortage which raises prices for all of us across the board.
Now theyβre going to throttle and limit access to it behind a paywall per transaction. The future is so stupid. Can we just go back to dial up internet and IRC? It was a much simpler time.
You could also just not use these services. You don't need them. They were a stupid idea to begin with.
It's why I only use the free versions of these lol
Well, I'm officially canceling my GH copilot sub. Wtf is this?
Been feeling like we were going to see a cheap ai compute rug pull soon.
Imagine paying for gpt-4o in 2026.
Wtf is this?
The most foreseeable event of the last 20 years.
Massive out of this world investment + no demand = prices so cheap they were operating at a huge loss
Operating at a huge loss + time = huge enshittification
Raising prices is the easiest form of enshittification. Ads are coming too. Lastly it will be degrading features. Incorporating more features that no one wants, and bundling with other services that no one wants.
Of course it is... Funny though, bc nobody really uses it at work, so our pricing should theoretically go down... But I doubt it, MS will find a way to make it go up
Well, base prices stay the same. They seem to just be billing more per usage on top of that...
All 0 multiplier gone from pricing.
People were using free agent swarms for stuff.
Time to try those Chinese models. They just released a new Deepseek V4 Pro and I'm hearing great things and it's super cheap
So should I just switch to Claude max plan now?
no
The almost endless opus usage couldn't last to be fair. I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!
On the potentially bright side maybe this will make people think harder about which model to use for which task. You don't need to feed your entire code base into Opus when a Gemini Flash sub-agent can do a perfectly fine job running grep and compiling a summary for the main agent.
If I have to think about that I'd honestly rather just do the work myself. Less effort and I trust the author more