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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what is a "usage" btw? They said 1 cent = 1 usage.

So 1 message sent to Copilot? Or usage = number of response Copilot gives back to the user?

[โ€“] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

I think that was before. Now it's based on the compute cost of the request. Like if you ask a large model to perform a long and difficult task you'll pay through the nose. If you ask a simple model to perform an easy task it'll be dirt cheap. And that's what's got people pissed, is that what used to be 'one query' now may consume a lot of credits and it may not be clear how many.