Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
jay_kyburz
14 points
4 comments
June 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
throw03172019
Why would you even use GitHub Copilot. It’s so far behind. They kind of blew it.
biglyburrito
Burned through 50+% of my monthly quota today using Sonnet 4.6, after starting the day at 0%. Only used it on an average daily workload, same as what I'd done all last month, and I used maybe 52% throughout all of May. I don't really care all that much, because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it. Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio, Microsoft caps the context window of Sonnet 4.6 at 200k even though it's capable of 1M, & at this price point there's almost certainly better ways of getting the same results from other models via other CLIs or plugins.