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Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

it'll be cheaper to bring in interns and junior developers again

Back when we were doing AI usage discussions in my organization we had the warning to treat AI as a "very eager intern." But interns learn from their mistakes, whereas an AI agent forgets its training without constant reminders.

Well the idea is that you're supposed to be doing the learning. Building a flotilla of skillset files and system prompt and agents and whatnot for each special purpose so you can keep its context uncluttered for each task.

Radical idea here, I know, but like... Why not just teach a person with a brain, that can learn the actual skills, to do the job instead of the hallucination machine?

Same reason machines to do anything else that can be done by hand: Humans are expensive. Coding is one a rare case where LLMAI is defensible, imho: - They're trained on freely available public code instead of stolen art, - they collaborate with devs more than replacing them, - code is autotestable.

An interesting thread about the cost of AI when it’s no longer subsidised by the big tech firms. bsky.app/profile/edzi...