I've been using it for well over a year now.
Hit my limit in 1 day and canceled.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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It wasn't profitable. This bait and switch was a long time coming.
Yup, the “first one is free” deal is always a trap.
Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.
It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don't think it's there, and it's definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.
There will be some major bag holders soon. Who's is gonna be? The funnelers or the funnelees? How does MS bounce back having integrated copilot into everything?
Given the recent NASDAQ changes, looks like US pension funds will end up with the bag. What a scam.
Microslop can suck it.
B- but the DOW 🥺
So a massive wealth transfer - right after Covid, ANOTHER unprecedented wealth transfer.
Side question: when are you people in the imperial core going to do something about this with all that God given Liberty™ and Freedom® you continually bomb and destabilize the rest of us for?
We got ourselves a keyboard warrior here.
Shakes Magic 8 Ball: Signs point to never.
I have pro+ and I filed an FTC complaint when the billing change was announced and encouraged others to do the same, with the hope that it may lead to a class action settlement in the future.
Good luck, buddy!
Not me. As soon as my boss said, "Use the tool thoughtfully," I pretty much don't use it at all anymore.
The most thoughtful way to use it.
My reaction, exactly.
Would love to be a fly on the boardroom wall of any one of those companies which did massive layoffs “because AI”. Probably lowkey panicking on how to get their devs back.
Yeah, what's the surprise here? Turns out it's expensive.
The surprise is that they're not continuing to throw VC money at it to bolster user numbers and mislead investors.
Microsoft was deceptive here and never made it clear exactly what sort of deal you were getting with the flat rate. There was no indication of the actual magnitude.
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Man, enshittification is happening so fast for ai. Imagine the next big thing. It'll be enshittified prior to release.
Meta kind of did that with their VR stuff. They skipped the appealing to users part and build a bland, brand-safe, microtransaction-laden experience to sell to businesses assuming they could just use their size to force users to buy it.
I think that's because Meta acquiring Oculus was the enshitfication.
„Enshittified“ implies it was ever not shit.
This isn't enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven't captured the market enough for that. They're just panicking because they're burning cash way too fast.
That word is only used correctly about 5% of the times it is used.
Don't wanna be "that guy", but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean "greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck", then that just is what that word means now.
It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that's how she goes.
Are suggesting the word itself has become enshittified?
Interestingly enough, not the correct use for that word lol
Quick, we need a word for enshittified enshittification!
They forgot the first step where you make a great product that everyone's clamoring to use.
They did, if by "everyone" you mean rich detached executives that constantly make decisions they have not the intelligence to understand.
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vampires on a balcony.gif
me feeling pimp since ive always hosted my own runners
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~~GitHub~~ Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
Not sure if you don't realize this but those are the same company.
They switched from heavily subsidizing it, to subsidizing it less. That's going to happen with the other providers, too.
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I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. The new pricing is closer to what it actually costs to provide the service.
They can't keep subsidizing AI forever. The same thing is going to happen to other providers too.
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