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Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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They'll move to another service, the service's expenses will spike, and then that service will switch to usage based billing, and then they'll have to look for another service again, and repeat the loop until they can run a good enough model locally.