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Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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The 2 remaining devs using Copilot will leave it.
It's rare to see such a clear example of first-mover disadvantage as GitHub Copilot.
Honestly, only Tesla comes to mind. Maybe bleeding edge tech frontier is the one place where first movers RND cost is heavy enough to make it irrecoverable.
It's interesting to contrast this w/ the field of medicine; RND cost can be recovered by squeezing the folks in the domestic market.