Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits (www.wheresyoured.at)

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Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to its GitHub Copilot coding product, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing.

The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year.

Microsoft also intends to tighten the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.

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[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How good that my laptop doesn't have this stupid copilot button so that I can safely delete this garbage software without loosing esthetics and functionality of a laptop.

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