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GitHub Copilot's new usage-based pricing model causes sticker shock among users, with some burning through a month's credits within a day. The change ends the previous subsidy model that kept costs low for heavy users.
Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses in its Experiences plus Devices group (Windows, M365, Teams, Surface engineers) by June 30 and shifting to GitHub Copilot CLI for fiscal year-end cost control and tool unification.
GitHub Copilot is switching from a flat subscription fee to a token-based billing model, causing developer outrage as costs could skyrocket for heavy users. The change has sparked debate over usage habits and Microsoft's pricing strategy.
Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses and directing employees to use GitHub Copilot CLI instead, citing convergence and cost savings despite Claude Code's popularity among its developers.
The author tests multiple coding agent harnesses (GitHub Copilot, Pi, Claude Code, OpenCode) using the same Qwen3.6 27B model, finding that harness design significantly impacts performance, with OpenCode excelling at web searches and web development, and GitHub Copilot struggling with file editing tools.
GitHub has made remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code sessions generally available, allowing users to start work on one machine and continue seamlessly from another.
GitHub Copilot CLI introduces a statusline feature, with setup instructions for Oh My Posh.
AgentKanban is a VS Code extension that integrates with GitHub Copilot to manage AI agent tasks, persist context via MCP, and enable resumable workflows through a collaborative Kanban board.
Research laboratories are grappling with rising AI subscription costs and usage limits from providers like OpenAI and GitHub, raising questions about the cost-benefit ratio for scientific research.
A developer discusses plans for GitHub Copilot Codebase to adopt a stable weekly release schedule with larger updates on Thursdays.
The article analyzes a series of chaotic pricing and plan adjustments by Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub in April, attributing them to the struggle of aligning legacy subscription models with new, high-cost agent usage patterns.
GitHub pauses new Copilot Individual sign-ups and tightens usage limits while removing Opus models from Pro tier to curb soaring compute demand from agentic workflows.
Troy Hunt shares his weekly update on using AI agents like OpenClaw and Claude to automate data breach processing and content management for Have I Been Pwned, highlighting growing reliance on AI tools.
OpenAI introduces Codex, a GPT model fine-tuned on GitHub code, achieving 28.8% functional correctness on HumanEval (a new benchmark for code synthesis from docstrings), significantly outperforming GPT-3 (0%) and GPT-J (11.4%). The paper demonstrates that repeated sampling improves performance to 70.2% with 100 samples, and discusses limitations and broader impacts of code generation systems.
book-to-skill is a tool that converts technical books, document folders, or collections of sources into structured agent skill files for use with GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, and Claude Code, reducing token usage by 24x-51x compared to dumping full book text into context.
Gas Town is a workspace manager that coordinates multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.) with persistent work tracking via git-backed hooks, enabling reliable multi-agent workflows for up to 20-30 agents.
GitHub has released a multi-platform SDK that enables developers to integrate GitHub Copilot Agent capabilities into their own applications and services.