Post #2449230

2026-04-21 00:48 UTC

Looks like microsoft can't subsidize GitHub Copilot anymore https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/ Claude Opus was available at 3x multiplier on all paid plans. Now it is only available on the most expensive plan with a promotional 7.5x multiplier until the end of April. They blame the popularity of agentic AI coding. Basically everyone uses Claude Opus for this purpose. I can't even imagine how much money they lost, lmao. A $10 subscription gave 300 Sonnet requests or 100 Opus requests. If you pay for tokens directly, you can burn $10 in like ten Sonnet requests. I find it hilarious how big tech was pushing everyone to use AI, and now, when a lot of programmers started properly using it, they are realizing that it is not fucking sustainable at all. But at the same time, they need to follow the AI hypetrain.

Replies (5)

@inex@pony.social 2026-04-21 00:55

What makes me happy is that local small models are now good enough to be smart auto-complete. I hate agentic AI coding, it devours my soul. But just a smart autocomplete that tries to predict what I was about to type and just helps me to stay in flow is a good thing, and it can be done on a consumer GPU, demanding less watts to run than any AAA videogame.

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@inex@pony.social 2026-04-21 01:06

Employing junior devs is literally cheaper than employing AI agents, if your AI agents are not subsidized. great job, big tech.

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@inex@pony.social 2026-04-21 01:44

I forgot to address the elephant in the room. THEY STOPPED SELLING THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS, BECAUSE THEY LOSE TOO MUCH MONEY. I know many people who recently decided to buy Claude Max subscription, and promptly got banned. "Don't they want my money?" — they ask after receiving a refund. Well, despite you paying one hundred bucks each month (which is kinda A LOT) they will lose much more money. So in the end, they will get more money if they ban and refund. Just because they would cut their expenses doing so.

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@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-21 05:34

@inex@pony.social Nice news! :drgn_aww: Hope this ends the current wave of open slopware

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@nightoo@chaos.social 2026-04-22 23:18

@inex@pony.social I believe the 3 -> 7.5 factor jump doesn't mean what you think it does: the new Opus 4.7 consumes significantly more tokens, so Copilot is adapting to that (so it's Claude itself going to shit really)

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