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Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by toraway »

duxup wrote: post #118
breakpointalpha wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots. I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc. Clankers can keep their own counts.

Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast. It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged.

Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by BadBadJellyBean »

We are slowly inching closer to the point where AI and AI products will be billed for what they cost. We are currently living in the heavily discounted world where everything subsidized to the point where a lot of it is free. It seems like they can't or won't keep that up anymore. My prediction is that whenever one of the big companies raise their prices or move features to higher tiers others will follow soon. They all feel the pressure and non of them want to give away more money than they need to.

I wonder if managers will be as excited about AI when the prices go up.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by sassymuffinz »

BadBadJellyBean wrote: post #122

We are slowly inching closer to the point where AI and AI products will be billed for what they cost. We are currently living in the heavily discounted world where everything subsidized to the point where a lot of it is free. It seems like they can't or won't keep that up anymore. My prediction is that whenever one of the big companies raise their prices or move features to higher tiers others will follow soon. They…

It's humorous to me that I can do the work of an AI with nothing but a coffee and an occasional sandwich and yet they talk about AI as if it's some sort of magic hack to productivity.

What they don't like is paying money for the work, that's all that matters to them.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by aaarrm »

Frieren wrote: post #36

As financial markets get tighter AI companies will stop subsidizing their services and charge enough money to actually make a profit. It is time to setup local models. It is cheaper, and you already have a computer. Why keep it idle and pay someone else for their CPU?

Won't competition likely keep prices low? At first maybe not, but sooner or later open models will catch up, then it's a completely open market for anyone to host and sell services.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by seanhunter »

paulddraper wrote: post #16
1qaboutecs wrote: post #12

scary but thank goodness github actions is highly reliable, robust to change, and has a simple-to-understand ontology.

To the naysayers, I would point out that actions has not only one but TWO 9s of uptime. [1] [1] https://www.githubstatus.com/

…And at this point probably not one but two 9s (or possibly more) of security vulnerabilities [1]

[1] https://securitylab.github.com/resources/github-actions-prev...

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by afavour »

aaarrm wrote: post #124
Frieren wrote: post #36

As financial markets get tighter AI companies will stop subsidizing their services and charge enough money to actually make a profit. It is time to setup local models. It is cheaper, and you already have a computer. Why keep it idle and pay someone else for their CPU?

Won't competition likely keep prices low? At first maybe not, but sooner or later open models will catch up, then it's a completely open market for anyone to host and sell services.

Competition won't keep prices below cost. Only subsidy by investors can do that and they won't do that forever.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by maccard »

infecto wrote: post #28
maccard wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had more build failures in 2025 due to Actions outages or degraded service than any other reason.

Which is fair but inversely we do many builds throughout the day most business days and have not had an impact where we noticed it. Could also be that we deploy often and frequently and have setup our builds to be as quick as possible so any issues would likely go unnoticed.

Yeah totally. We use GitHub + actions for backend, and self host Perforce + TeamCity for our main game codebase. We had 0 downtime in 12 months on our TC as a comparison. I know there’s a difference between running an internal service and developing a global scale platform that is abused, but as a user I don’t care about those concerns, I care about the platform being up!

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by jakobnissen »

sassymuffinz wrote: post #123
BadBadJellyBean wrote: post #122

We are slowly inching closer to the point where AI and AI products will be billed for what they cost. We are currently living in the heavily discounted world where everything subsidized to the point where a lot of it is free. It seems like they can't or won't keep that up anymore. My prediction is that whenever one of the big companies raise their prices or move features to higher tiers others will follow soon. They…

It's humorous to me that I can do the work of an AI with nothing but a coffee and an occasional sandwich and yet they talk about AI as if it's some sort of magic hack to productivity. What they don't like is paying money for the work, that's all that matters to them.

You work for sandwiches and coffee, and not for a decent salary?

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by libraryofbabel »

BadBadJellyBean wrote: post #122

We are slowly inching closer to the point where AI and AI products will be billed for what they cost. We are currently living in the heavily discounted world where everything subsidized to the point where a lot of it is free. It seems like they can't or won't keep that up anymore. My prediction is that whenever one of the big companies raise their prices or move features to higher tiers others will follow soon. They…

This is already happening. For new Anthropic enterprise accounts you are billed at api token prices (maybe with a small volume discount). Anthropic makes a profit on those tokens. (Sure, that profit does not cover the model training costs, but that’s a separate issue.) It’s the subscriptions for individuals (e.g. Claude Max) that are still subsidized below cost.

> I wonder if managers will be as excited about AI when the prices go up.

Companies are willing to pay the api pricing. Engineering time is very expensive and AI coding agents actually work now since December and are actually showing measurable productivity gains, finally. It’s a good deal to make (obviously, with caveats: you need to make sure your tokens are going on productive tasks that will actually grow revenue) and anyone who penny-pinches is making a strategic mistake.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by grumple »

tuo-lei wrote: post #74

is there any data on how many Actions minutes a single copilot review actually takes? the announcement doesn't mention it, and for a team doing 20+ PRs a day that number adds up fast.

I have noticed “running for x minutes” while it’s doing the review, but I can’t see it on completed reviews. Definitely mysterious.
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