So can I just have my credit card do a charge back? This fundamentally changes the thing I paid for.

I wonder what this will mean for all of my students. I have been weaving copilot into my software engineering and code centric courses, but that depends on copilot pro as provided by the GitHub education package. If those signups are paused too, that means I can’t bring in any new ones, at least not to this stack. For me, I’ll probably have to send them to Claude code where they will have to pay for access. (Though it is a better product IMHO.)

This points toward a deeper issue though. We’ll probably see more individual offerings dry up over time. That means you’ll have individuals stuck with hand coding while the hyper productive AI assisted coders will all be at large organizations. If that happens, we’ll enter a phase where computing will once more be available exclusively to the elite few.

All of the evidence shows that anthropic is dealing with a capacity crisis since February.

There are no good solutions for them.

If OpenAI is indeed overbuilt they will completely eliminate Claude.

I guess it makes more sense for me to just get Claude Pro instead. I was using my Copilot license only because of Opus 4.6 access as all other models seemed crippled in comparison in Copilot; does not even make sense to upgrade to Pro+ which goes from $10/mo to $40/mo and only gives you access to a model that has 7x the rate - 5x the limit at 7x the rate for 4x the price does not seem appealing at all.

I wouldn't mind this change that much if opus-4.7 worked properly in copilot cli. It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason.

Looks like I'm ending my subscription, good (likely too good, no way my account was even remotely within profitable range) access to opus-4.6 was the only reason I used this at all.

Welp. I already added a $20 Claude Pro subscription to complement my $10 Github Copilot Pro subscription and $10 DuckDuckGo Plus. That was partly to show support for Anthropic after the OpenAI/DOD episode, but also because I've been using Opus 4.5 exclusively with Copilot and I figured I should try Claude Code eventually.

Now it's going to cost me an upgrade to $39 Github Pro+ to keep using Opus, and even then it's with much higher multipliers. I don't fully understand the extent to which this reflects actual costs for Opus versus Microsoft leveraging network effects to discourage the usage of a competitor.

I didn't really want to wander outside of VSCode just yet because I was happy with VSCode/Copilot/Opus-4.5 and I don't want to spend all my time experimenting when stuff is changing so fast. But I guess my hand has been forced.

Microslop, 'xcuse me, Microsoft is working hard to make github less and less appealing. It's a bit weird how an initially fairly good idea, over time becomes ... worse.

Worst part is them doing this mid-billing cycle and not at the start of the next in 11 days. I cancelled and requested a refund.

I cannot describe how disappointing it is to be switching to this insane time limit window based pricing. I absolutely abhor that I'll be subjected to 5 hour chunks of time where I'll be limited at some point in that window of time, and be told I'll have to wait. And then there is a weekly limit.

That's not how my creative energy works. I have time that I want to solve problems, and I want to solve them. I don't want a cooldown timer applied to solving a problem. Not to mention the anxiety of realizing that while I sleep I could have burned tokens in that time.

I'm incredibly disappointed when I sat down to my hobbyist programming time and realized copilot was suddenly and dramatically changed in a way that is incredibly disheartening.

Meter my token usage DON'T tell me when I can use them! ARGH.

  The actions we are taking today enable us to provide the best possible experience for existing users while we develop a more sustainable solution.

I'm not surprised at all. This was one of the most generous plans out there, offering frankly ridiculous pricing based on a single prompt regardless of turns taken or tokens used. I was subscribed for a month around Christmas and got a shitload of tokens out of Opus 4.5 for a measly $10.