Technology

Because subsidized plans can't be used at enterprise. Enterprise pays expensive rates

From the enterprise admin of Copilot, Cursor & Claude....enterprise controls. ~~Microsoft~~ GitHub understands what companies need to run their products securely and successfully (at scale™).

/edit to add. Our Copilot bill went down due to change in billing type, mostly due to organization pooling of credits.

Good devs don’t rely on it to do their job, but use it to do their job better and more productively.

As a dev, copilot is amazing.

Said like someone who doesn’t understand that AI is a tool that can greatly improve your work life and productivity.

If I was you I’d do some research into it, especially around GitHub copilot, and get learning - or you’re going to be left behind. If you’re a dev then you are signing your careers death warrant by having that attitude.

Actually it can be a very useful tool, if you know what you're doing. Expensive in real terms, so only for tasks which are worth it. So perhaps not for making annoying cat videos.

Yeah, empower chinese models, instead! That's the solution!

Yeah - people are talking about replacing jobs with AI. As if it is not totally obvious that people like Sam Altman will totally bleed you dry after you fired all your workers. You will not save on your wage bill, you will simply give the money to Sam Altman

The angry devs from this article are idiots

I've been preaching this for the past couple of years. Everything up until now has been entirely about gaining market share, and AI will never be cheaper than it is right now, and it's not cheap.

Just look at the "earnings" for companies like openAI. They are 1000+% in the red. It's impossible for them to change their sales model enough to make that profitable. As more data centers go up, the operating costs are also going to go up.

I've been telling people that now is the best time in the past decade or more to learn how to code. There will be positions available in the coming years when the only junior devs available are vibe coders.

Pretty sure they picked the wrong tech to try and lock people into. It isn't hardware and doesn't have some kind of proprietary interface that takes time to get used to when switching. Some models might be better than others at specific things, but not enough to justify the prices they are going to charge for output you have to review and fix.

This is literally the easiest thing to jump ship from.

The unique thing about GitHub Copilot (and all the other vibe-coding tools) is that they're speed-running the playbook because this shit is not profitable. It can't be. Their costs scale up with usage, unlike every other business that can take advantage of economies of scale, so they've skipped the slow, steady enshittification phase and jumped directly into the "squeeze blood from this stone to keep the scam going a little longer" phase.

Where I work, Chinese models are banned due to legal concerns. Not just in production, on any company-owned machine. That basically eliminates all the decent open weight models. I’m imagining this type of policy will be more widespread. I suppose it’s because of the potential for legal woes if systems and people are dependent on these models and then federal or state laws impose harsh penalties with little time to react.

To use one equivalent to Claude Opus, you need like 800GB GPU memory. The chips that will get you there run $20-30k a pop, and you’d need 4 or more of them.