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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    3 hours ago

    Good. This may reduce the amount of sloppy code being created. And prevent prices from increasing for everyone.

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    24 hours ago

    It feels like the enshittification cycle is so fast these days. There’s not even any time to get comfy as a frog in the pot before they turn up the gas! 🐸

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    10 hours 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.