GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
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Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#2Interesting, I didn't know minutes where free before.
Stopped my recurring subscription at the end of last year when it started spinning up actions for review. Which as a side effect doubled the time (or so) to do a review. Whereas before that I would open a PR, wait at most a minute or two and the review was already done.
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#3Expect to see more of these kinds of announcements as companies need to start showing returns on their AI investments. It's hard to say how subsidized the current AI products are[1] but we're definitely getting a free lunch at VC's expense the moment.
[1] Ed Zitron speculates the actual prices with token based billing for heavy users will be something like 10x the subscription price, but this seems high.
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#4I feel the rug under my feet moving. Is it being pulled?!
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#5Expect to see more of these kinds of announcements as companies need to start showing returns on their AI investments. It's hard to say how subsidized the current AI products are[1] but we're definitely getting a free lunch at VC's expense the moment. [1] Ed Zitron speculates the actual prices with token based billing for heavy users will be something like 10x the subscription price, but this seems high.
Not that I give much credence to anything Zitron says, but the amount of inference you can get on a £200 a month OpenAI or Anthropic subscription is easily an order of magnitude more than what you'd get paying the same amount at subscription rate.
Although I would also point out that OpenAI recently tripled the amount of Codex inference you get per month for £200 (and to head off the suggestion, this is distinct from their current 2x promotion on £100/month plans)
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#6Expect to see more of these kinds of announcements as companies need to start showing returns on their AI investments. It's hard to say how subsidized the current AI products are[1] but we're definitely getting a free lunch at VC's expense the moment. [1] Ed Zitron speculates the actual prices with token based billing for heavy users will be something like 10x the subscription price, but this seems high.
> 10x the subscription price, but this seems high
Inference is cheap but training is quite expensive. Plus all the money they've invested and keep investing on hardware, data centers, etc. And evidently they also need to make a profit at some point.
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#7I feel the rug under my feet moving. Is it being pulled?!
Just you wait, this is a gentle tug to test how hard they can pull when the time comes.
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#8This seems nonsensical. Why would non-actions activity consume actions budget?
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#9I feel the rug under my feet moving. Is it being pulled?!
Just you wait, this is a gentle tug to test how hard they can pull when the time comes.
It's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out. Usually a tech rugpull like this lasts a number of years. And this sort of has, but the agentic stuff has really only caught on like wildfire in the last, I dunno, six months or so. The rugpull would be way more effective if there could be several years of getting developers addicted to this development paradigm, but alas, the VC money burned was too great to subsidize for very long.
Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
#10Expect to see more of these kinds of announcements as companies need to start showing returns on their AI investments. It's hard to say how subsidized the current AI products are[1] but we're definitely getting a free lunch at VC's expense the moment. [1] Ed Zitron speculates the actual prices with token based billing for heavy users will be something like 10x the subscription price, but this seems high.
> 10x the subscription price, but this seems high Inference is cheap but training is quite expensive. Plus all the money they've invested and keep investing on hardware, data centers, etc. And evidently they also need to make a profit at some point.
> Inference is cheap
Maybe from the perspective of traditional, turn-based chat. But when you start having developers command an army of agents that work around the clock, those cheap tokens start adding up fast...