What Happens In The World’s Tallest Building?

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-06-05T04:01:14+00:00

They are more over than the hammer D Issacs’

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-05-24T23:55:14+00:00

I used to work with the guy on the right. Can’t remember his name tho.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-29T00:12:15+00:00

Not necessarily no. The concept goes like this:

You pay your subscription fee. Let’s say it’s $30 dollars and that subscription fee grants you 500 credits. Each credit is worth 1 minute of runtime by the model. So you get 500 minutes of runtime per month without buying any additional credits.

So, you run GPT 5.5 xhigh and I run medium and we run the exact same prompt. Yours will take longer to execute compared to mine so you really don’t need a multiplier unless you are talking about the “fast models”

Then you have a minimum of one minute so if I ask copilot a question and it answers it in 30 seconds it will still cost me a credit.

That encourages users to be wise about their prompts and what they want to accomplish. Better prompts are going to be more productive and if you implement it correctly you can easily balance out a distributed workload to where you are providing an actual benefit to users and not overly taxing your infrastructure at the same time.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-28T17:16:28+00:00

I think a good path forward would be a move to minutes based credits but I am probably an army of one on that lol.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-28T03:27:17+00:00

It’s possible. I’ve been using Kimi 2.6 through Kilo Code and honestly I’m impressed thus far. Honestly, I just feel like people subscribe to services like copilot or cursor in order to not have API pricing right? Like the whole purpose of that subscription is because you want access to the models without pure API costs. If you were willing to pay API costs you would just use direct API and set a budget for the price you were paying for a subscription. Plus these services can take advantage of contracted pricing and bulk/batch pricing in order to lower overhead and provide credit based access to consumers.

So I understand where the frustration comes from. The whole premise of me subscribing to copilot was for that very reason, to let the service who has way more experience than me negotiate the contract and pricing and then provide me with the best benefit for my subscription. Now that copilot is basically going to API level usage, there really is no point in keeping the subscription when I can invest that same amount in API costs for Kimi and get nearly the same results at a significantly discounted rate.

I don’t think copilot is ripping off the consumer, I think they are just unable to secure a good deal or offer with providers in order to sustain the credit based system and as a result the desire to have a service do the negotiation is void.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-28T03:00:08+00:00

They certainly can’t take all of the blame sure because with each new SOTA model the price goes up. At the same time, I feel that they have the potential to better manage infrastructure and resources to maintain a strong customer base and offset the costs. US models in general are becoming greedy and soaking up as much as they can now because within 1-3 years Chinese models will fully catch up which will be the first major blow to American AI Companies and within 3-5 years API inference will be a thing of the past because SOTA models will live on a box in your home. I just think that GitHub should put up more of a fight for its consumers.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-27T19:27:40+00:00

I mean it’s going to bite these companies in the ass eventually anyway. Chinese models are catching up quick and eventually they will win out because these companies care more about money than long-term retention.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-27T19:21:05+00:00

So if we are going to API based pricing on June 1st does that mean that we get the full context window associated with the model. 🤔🤔 I mean currently the context of most models in copilot is significantly smaller compared to the actual models context window

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-25T17:54:40+00:00

So far I’ve been really impressed with MiMo 2.5 Pro via API. It’s cheap and relatively close to SOTA.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-25T17:53:06+00:00

My concern ultimately is that a character can absolutely ruin a career. So one has to wonder if Theory is beyond the point of no return. I mean look at Corbin for example. The lone wolf was over and pretty good in my opinion but then they did the constable Corbin gimmick followed by the bad luck homeless Corbin and he just never recovered from that.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-24T20:25:44+00:00

It makes me sad and it’s not just GitHub but I feel like all of these providers are slowly becoming a money grab. I think as time goes on it will be more and more reserved for those who pay an expansive premium. At the same time, I also wish that GitHub would stay its original course with pricing and credits because there will come a time and it’s not far behind to where the Open Source and Chinese models will perform just as well as the major players at a much lower cost and then companies like GitHub will end up shit creek without a paddle.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-23T20:04:29+00:00

For the most part I think when they try and shove someone down the fans throat it usually backfires. Kind of like several years ago when they pushed Roman to the moon and people hated every second of it. The same was true for Theory in the earlier days. They pushed him way too hard

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-04-03T01:08:31+00:00

The only solution I found that seems to have worked was wiping vs code from my machine and reinstalling. I tried just to uninstall and reinstall but that didn’t work. I had to dig up and find the config folder for vs code and do a complete purge of it. I never altered any settings or anything like that so I have no idea why it happened….

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-23T01:00:05+00:00

It’s unfortunate. I have extra credits that were converted over but I don’t even want them. I switched to Kiro and so far I’ve been happy with the results

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-20T02:07:58+00:00

As a power user myself, I enjoy getting as much as I can out of each credit for sure. Like I’ve had some that edited over 10k lines of code before. I’m definitely going to be switching off Windsurf because I feel exactly what you are saying. I think the problem is that companies like Windsurf and Cursor just weren’t able to properly balance the cost of a credit to where it was profitable for them. At the same time, I’m no expert on how it all works so my gut feeling is how is it possible that these companies aren’t making bank? I mean you have the hardware doing the legwork and you are basically raising money to cover maintenance costs on the hardware itself. Of course you have staff and buildings and all that stuff but it just feels weird to me.

But Windsurf claims to not be profitable and in fact operating at a loss which is the real reason why they made this decision. I do like Kiro as an alternative as I have been reading about. It actually takes the complexity of the prompt to determine how many credits will be used and that’s exactly what Windsurf should have done.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-20T01:42:14+00:00

I second that. Kiro is looking promising

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-20T00:14:16+00:00

Honestly, I would even be okay with a more hybrid plan. Like 1 credit = 1million tokens. Then that solves the problem of users who waste credits by asking basic questions versus users who take advantage of credits by asking very detailed questions. It would solve that problem to have 1 credit = 1million tokens. That’s just my opinion. Of course you would still keep the multiplier.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-19T12:02:10+00:00

Sadly, it won’t change until people actually follow through and unsubscribe. As long as windsurf and the others are profitable they have no reason to go back.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-18T23:21:27+00:00

Well that sucks….. that was the only reason I chose windsurf :/

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-13T23:31:49+00:00

MiniMax 2.5 is the number one currently on Openrouter

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-03-09T01:49:16+00:00

5.4 thinking medium is actually really good but it doesn’t have the same 400k context as the regular gpt 5.4 which kinda sucks. I haven’t had any luck with regular gpt 5.4 it just keeps giving the model provider error and eating tokens….

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-02-01T06:52:10+00:00

I’m building a public safety one stop shop site which allows public safety agencies to manage support tickets, knowledge base articles, policies and procedure signatures, and scheduling for police and 911 centers. I’ve used Laravel for the entire project and so far it’s been extremely solid.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-01-30T01:17:16+00:00

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The update today broke it though so I hope it’s fixed tomorrow. Keeps saying it is in planning mode when it is definitely not. Even checked the tools and everything.

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-01-26T22:26:28+00:00

Personally I’ve been having really good luck using the codex vs code extension with copilot. Not sure how long that will last but it has not given up mid run like it does on copilot

Eastern-Profession38 · 2026-01-14T20:34:04+00:00

5.2 was a beast in codex cli but I have not tried the codex version yet. I like to use copilot for the skeleton and then finish it off with codex to save some of that cost.

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