The squeeze could not happen soon enough π
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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*plays the world's tiniest violin*
Everyone could've seen it coming from mile away
anyone who didnt is a fucking idiot
I think this is "stupid money', again.
I hope this makes companies stop being "AI native"
It wasn't profitable. This bait and switch was a long time coming.
In just glad it happened relatively soon. Should have happened sooner :-)
Yup, the βfirst one is freeβ deal is always a trap.
Literal drug dealer strategy
I've been using it for well over a year now.
Hit my limit in 1 day and canceled.
Yup, same. x57 for GPT 5.5 now?! The GitHub agent architecture was hot as hell and allowed me to work on projects without ever bootstrapping it locally, but there is no way I'm gonna get sucked into spending hundreds a month. It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I'll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly. Throttled usage is way better than being fucked over by a glorified reseller.
It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I'll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly
I look forward to seeing the follow up comment where you do the same with one of those when they inevitably do the same
Lol, all AI is shifting to this model. Those other companies will bait and switch too just a matter of time.
Yeah I don't doubt that anthropic is burning money so fast right now. It's actually wild to see, GitHub's pricing might actually be the first glimpse of real pricing for AI we're seeing.
Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.
It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don't think it's there, and it's definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.
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Yeah, what's the surprise here? Turns out it's expensive.
The surprise is that they're not continuing to throw VC money at it to bolster user numbers and mislead investors.
Microsoft was deceptive here and never made it clear exactly what sort of deal you were getting with the flat rate. There was no indication of the actual magnitude.
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My reaction, exactly.
Would love to be a fly on the boardroom wall of any one of those companies which did massive layoffs βbecause AIβ. Probably lowkey panicking on how to get their devs back.
Not me. As soon as my boss said, "Use the tool thoughtfully," I pretty much don't use it at all anymore.
The most thoughtful way to use it.
Man, enshittification is happening so fast for ai. Imagine the next big thing. It'll be enshittified prior to release.
Basically what happened with Claude Opus 4.8
This isn't enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven't captured the market enough for that. They're just panicking because they're burning cash way too fast.
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Meta kind of did that with their VR stuff. They skipped the appealing to users part and build a bland, brand-safe, microtransaction-laden experience to sell to businesses assuming they could just use their size to force users to buy it.
I think that's because Meta acquiring Oculus was the enshitfication.
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I have pro+ and I filed an FTC complaint when the billing change was announced and encouraged others to do the same, with the hope that it may lead to a class action settlement in the future.
Good luck, buddy!
~~GitHub~~ Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
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