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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
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I really hope you're right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don't think they can stop using AI because they just don't have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I'm sure they're not alone.
Literally any price except paying skilled employees.
That costs actual money though
For the cost of one employee you can give 5 employees AI and tell them to work 10x faster while they have to wrestle the stupid AI.
You aren't wrong, but even if LLMs didn't exist, employers would invent a scapegoat to make the same demands of their employees.
They would have to stop wasting so much money on LLM's first.