Was good while it lasted, I hope Microsoft continues their new tradition of vibe coding their billing systems :p
Oh that was pithy, mean, and just the right amount of taking-it-personally. Well done!
Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
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#22Re: Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
#23Even without hacks, Copilot is still a cheap way to use Claude models:
- $10/month
- Copilot CLI for Claude Code type CLI, VS Code for GUI
- 300 requests (prompts) on Sonnet 4.5, 100 on Opus 4.6 (3x)
- One prompt only ever consumes one request, regardless of tokens used
- Agents auto plan tasks and create PRs
- "New Agent" in VS Code runs agent locally
- "New Cloud Agent" runs agent in the cloud (https://github.com/copilot/agents)
- Additional requests cost $0.04 each
Re: Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
#24The laat comment is a person pretending to be a maintainer of Microsoft. I have a gut feeling that these kind of people will only increase, and we'll have vibe engineers scouring popular repositories to ""contribute"" (note that the suggested fix is vague). I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess.
No where in the comment do they assert they are work for Microsoft. This is a peer-review.
Let's just say they are pretending to be helpful, how about that?
> "Peer review"
no unless your "peers" are bots who regurgitate LLM slop.
Re: Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
#25The laat comment is a person pretending to be a maintainer of Microsoft. I have a gut feeling that these kind of people will only increase, and we'll have vibe engineers scouring popular repositories to ""contribute"" (note that the suggested fix is vague). I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess.
On the other hand ... I recently had to deal with official Microsoft Support for an Azure service degradation / silent failure.
Their email responses were broadly all like this -- fully drafted by GPT. The only thing i liked about that whole exchange was that GPT was readily willing to concede that all the details and observations I included point to a service degradation and failure on Microsoft side. A purely human mind would not have so readily conceded the point without some hedging or dilly-dallying or keeping some options open to avoid accepting blame.
Re: Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
#26The laat comment is a person pretending to be a maintainer of Microsoft. I have a gut feeling that these kind of people will only increase, and we'll have vibe engineers scouring popular repositories to ""contribute"" (note that the suggested fix is vague). I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess.
No where in the comment do they assert they are work for Microsoft. This is a peer-review.
It's not a peer review it's just AI slop. I do agree they don't seem to be intentionally posing as an MS employee.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess. That repo alone has 1.1k open pull requests, madness.
> That repo alone has 1.1k open pull requests, madness. The UI can't even be bothered to show the number of open issues, 5K+ :) Then they "fix it" by making issues auto-close after 1 week of inactivity, meanwhile PRs submitted 10 years ago remains open.
> issues auto-close after 1 week of inactivity, meanwhile PRs submitted 10 years ago remains open.
It's definitely a mess, but based on the massive decline in signal vs noise of public comments and issues on open source recently, that's not a bad heuristic for filtering quality.
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#28Nothing compared to pirated CDs with Office and Windows, 20 yrs back.
They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. There is a repo on GH with powershell scripts for activating windows/office and they let it sit there. Just checked, repo has 165K stars. This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.
What's the direct cost to Microsoft of someone pirating an OS vs. making requests to a hosted LLM?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
No where in the comment do they assert they are work for Microsoft. This is a peer-review.
Let's just say they are pretending to be helpful, how about that? > "Peer review" no unless your "peers" are bots who regurgitate LLM slop.
You think they lied about reproducing the issue? It’s useful to know if a bug can be reproduced.
Re: Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
#30Why would you report this?! A second time. When they already closed your first issue. Just enjoy the free ride.
Some part of me says, let their vibing have a cost, since clearly "overall product quality going to shit" hasn't had a visible effect on their trajectory