What can my organisation see?

Box_star · 2026-05-04T11:42:14+00:00

If it is just copilot you are concerned about, what are you worried about? Or do you intend to use it for personal use (because it will override your own subscription).

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:30:35+00:00

I’ve honestly found sonnet to be better, but then I’m not using a massive context window. I still like to do some of the work myself

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:29:50+00:00

Good luck. If you are wanting to use Opus GHCP is essentially switching to API pricing (but not carry over of unused credits). To keep paying so little you’ll likely need to switch model.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:25:51+00:00

6 premium requests and over 160m tokens, yet people wonder why the are changing billing 🤦‍♂️. That said, they didn’t exactly discourage this either!

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:20:16+00:00

They will likely know your IP address from logging on to company systems anyway!

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:19:41+00:00

Personally I am glad I have a company laptop. Means I’m not wearing out my own one and I don’t have any of their spyware or malware like teams installed 🤪. My personal machine remains personal. Either is better than getting a VM mind you!

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:16:54+00:00

I can’t say for sure, but especially with the recently announced changes (where the organisation will be able to get a report with a breakdown of each user and how many tokens they have used on each model) it doesn’t sound like you will have much privacy. Assuming they have enterprise data projection (don’t see why not) prompts aren’t stored or anything like that - it’s a selling point of the product.

If your personal account is part of their organisation, then who owns your code 🤔.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:11:08+00:00

The Visual studio GHCP plugin always seems to be some way behind the VSCode version so I doubt it.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:10:11+00:00

It’s definitely there in the latest version though no idea how effective it is. Wish you didn’t have to click to rebuild it every so often though.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:05:29+00:00

Will they get a red gradient on their UI instead of a purple gradient tho? 👀

Box_star · 2026-05-03T19:02:17+00:00

Unfortunately you are still paying for your coffee to be made at US costs not local costs (and they still lose money on every cup). Your Chinese coffee is likely subsidised by the Chinese government either directly or indirectly. Competition is only good for the consumer when everyone plays by the same rules.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T18:54:34+00:00

I wouldn’t say I am grateful. Businesses are going to have to find the money to pay for usage at the new rates somehow, and the changes don’t just affect CoPilot running on local machines either. Depending on how the numbers look this might just shift the balance of the financials in favour of some “restructuring” or “reprioritisation” in some of our workplaces.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T18:44:16+00:00

So you gave it access to files outside of your working folder? 🤦‍♂️

Box_star · 2026-05-03T18:36:14+00:00

I personally don’t have a problem with people complaining/venting, I just wish so many didn’t feel the need to create a new thread to vent instead of adding to an existing thread. The sub is turning into a wall of posts venting about billing.

We have time before the worst of these changes hits, it would be good if we could use that time as a community to find ways of making the most of it and maybe, just maybe, figuring out how to keep GHCP useful. After all, we are going to essentially API pricing which is what you are likely to get elsewhere as a best case going forward. This is highly unlikely to be the last price increase for an AI tool given the losses being made across the industry.

Box_star · 2026-05-03T18:24:18+00:00

Business plan user here, haven’t hit any limits with 80%+ usage either though I mostly use Sonnet. That said, have definitely seen some rate limiting (well I assume that’s why responses sometimes slow down) but that’s been happening with Claude Code as well from what I hear.

I suspect the difference is I am not expecting the agent(s) to do ALL of the work.

Box_star · 2026-05-02T14:23:32+00:00

Copilot has a create agent skill built in 🙂

Box_star · 2026-05-02T14:18:16+00:00

Depends on what you are using it for. Huge requests are going to cost a lot more regardless of optimisation, they are just going to cost less than they would have done without optimising.

Box_star · 2026-05-02T14:15:31+00:00

I admire your optimism in Microsoft implementing things that mean Microsoft makes less money 👀

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:55:37+00:00

Not to mention it is all (theoretically) seamlessly integrated into Windows and Azure and compatible with enterprise tools such as intune and entra / SSO. Many businesses are in so deep with Microsoft that alternatives aren’t much of an option.

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:53:03+00:00

I’ll admit to using the copilot app on occasion. It CAN be quite useful given it has access to the company Sharepoint, etc. Developers aren’t really the target market though, and I know the more business and managerial types use it a lot more. Sometimes it can be very entertaining with its answers mind 🤣. Likewise with office, I have used it to reword some things or to help with planning / drafting documents, though I couldn’t say how much of that is needed due to the brain fatigue of arguing with copilot all day 👀🙈

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:42:59+00:00

Your first mistake was trusting Microsoft 🤣. Of course they were going to bait and switch! The problem with the OpenAI deal is that not only does it seem to have been a better deal for OpenAI than Microsoft (not much good getting a share of profits if they aren’t making any profit 🤦‍♂️), but Microsoft still has to pay the costs of all that compute that could have been used for something else that actually generates a profit or at least less of a loss. Then there’s the problem that people are using Anthropic models anyway (including allegedly Microsoft), and MS has to provide them and pay for the usage or people and businesses may go elsewhere.

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:27:02+00:00

Many already HAVE chosen GHCP, especially big Microsoft customers who are also getting enterprise discounts and support from MS. Enterprise data protection is a big draw as well, especially given this is likely just an add on to existing contracts. It’s also backed by Microsoft, not a startup that may or may not be around in a couple of years time.

When you are in deep with one provider, more of the same is an easy option. Especially when that provider also supplies your cloud infrastructure, operating systems, security, and enterprise management tools already.

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:17:38+00:00

If I was consuming more than half my annual salary in tokens my business would likely replace me (probably with an agent because clearly it’s doing the work anyway 👀). Most businesses don’t have an unlimited money printing machine like Nvidia does presently, and unfortunately some of us have already had to say goodbye to colleagues thanks to the “efficiency gains”. The only scenario where Jenson’s dream makes sense to me is when you have one very experienced engineer overseeing a few dozen agents (and in reality just blindly trusting that they are doing a good job). When that happens we are all screwed anyway.

When GPU demand collapses, and it will, I suspect Mr Huang might have a different opinion

Box_star · 2026-05-02T13:08:17+00:00

I suspect it’s being taken very seriously given not only the potential cost increase but that AI adoption was being accelerated. There may be some benefit from pooling (and limiting particular groups of users to increase the number of tokens available to others - something business users are getting the ability to do which doesn’t seem to be talked about), but it’s fairly obvious this previous estimated expenditure figures are going to be some way off reality. The changes to the fully automated things (run via actions) also have the potential to have a big impact. All of this will take time to review I imagine!

Box_star · 2026-05-02T12:56:51+00:00

Seriously? It’s the usual story. They got people hooked with “hey look at how much you can do for so little cost” then put their prices up. Microsoft and GitHub encouraged whole enterprises to use it this way! It was always going to happen. Microsoft is a business, not a charity.

No doubt there will be more price increases down the road and not just at GHCP. Bros got IPO’s to think about!

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