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Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by TheRoque »

sornaensis wrote: post #43

Good thing I had just finished migrating all of my workflows to OpenCode for the time being! It's a shame because the VsCode copilot experience is quite good out of the box compared to all of the other harnesses I've used. But with typical lack of transparency, and sudden, harsh changes... What are they thinking? After the restrictive rate limiting they've already instituted, I'm simply cancelling and continuing by u…

Which providers do you use ? I find copilot's prices pretty hard to beat, but if there's something better I'll cancel too.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by girvo »

davepeck wrote: post #8

This thread is pretty quiet for what strikes me as a substantial set of changes with, presumably, more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro plan. I get the impression that the intersection of HN posters and Copilot users is quite small in practice; that Claude Code and Codex suck up all the oxygen in this room. But it seems plausible we’ll see similar “true costs greatly exceed ou…

Anthropic literally just removed Claude Code from their Pro plan today, so you're even more right than you know.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by girvo »

diath wrote: post #6

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.

Claude Pro no longer includes Claude Code

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by hx8 »

I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to. The short period of discounted usage was always the obvious rug pull.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by codazoda »

diath wrote: post #10
rectang wrote: post #9

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 w…

> I didn't really want to wander outside of VSCode just yet because I was happy with VSCode/Copilot/Opus-4.5 This was my first thought too but apparently you can just use Claude Code within VSC: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code

You can also use Claude Code in a VS Code terminal window, which I much prefer for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on. Granted, I’ve moved to Zed in the past few months. I’m doing the same there.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by mtct88 »

I have a GitHub Copilot subscription and this really sucks.

I subscribed two months ago, frustrated with Claude Code and their tight session limits.

The Copilot offer was unbeatable 100 dollars for a 12 months plan, if I remember correctly.

It was pretty clear they were losing money, but hey, it's Microsoft and they need customers, so a competitive push on pricing is expected.

Let's see what these limits look like and I'll decide whether to cancel my subscription or not.

Still a terrible move from them.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by mmusc »

hx8 wrote: post #54

I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to. The short period of discounted usage was always the obvious rug pull.

one subscription for access to most of the models..

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by hx8 »

mmusc wrote: post #57
hx8 wrote: post #54

I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to. The short period of discounted usage was always the obvious rug pull.

one subscription for access to most of the models..

I was accounting for that in the 1% of value. I don't see a ton of value in this for development, you end up just always using the smartest model, with maybe tuning subagents to slightly dumber but much faster model. You really only need one subscription to the provider of the smartest model, with maybe 30 minutes of setup time to switch over if SOTA ever switches back to OpenAI.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by Marsymars »

hx8 wrote: post #54

I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to. The short period of discounted usage was always the obvious rug pull.

> I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to.

It can bill to our Azure sub and I don't have to go through the internal bureaucracy of purchasing a new product/service from a new vendor.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by plasma_beam »

hx8 wrote: post #54

I really dislike these AI middleman plans. The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero compared to directly buying from Anthropic or OpenAI, where 99% of the value is being delivered from. I don't understand why anyone would want to deal with Microsoft as a vendor if they don't have to. The short period of discounted usage was always the obvious rug pull.

Because if you’re a vscode user up until a couple days ago you could hammer Opus 4.6 all day every day and pay nowhere close to the Claude Max plan. Many people exploited this and the subsidy is closing.
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