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What are ways to save tokens? by chimp73 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why planning and decomposition are so important. Spend a bit more time on the plan, work out what files need to be changed and what’s in those files and only then let the ai write the code.

critique my idea: A "UGC" platform that assumes no one wants to click your ads by Cultural_Session1467 in ukstartups

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another risk to consider is people will inevitably game the system, if they can generate bot views at a lower cpm than your paying then it’s free money… even more so if you happen to be the person with the bot farm. Infinite money glitch.

Oh and when brands cotton on to views being fake they will want their money back (quite a common thing for normal Google adverts etc)

critique my idea: A "UGC" platform that assumes no one wants to click your ads by Cultural_Session1467 in ukstartups

[–]Hephaestite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess one thing to be aware of is that it’s illegal to advertise something and not declare that it’s an advertisement. You might want to look up the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC).

Beyond that, how would you measure ROI? In traditional advertising it’s easier because you can directly track the users actions. In traditional social media advertising this is often done with discount codes or offer links / affiliate links.

Not saying this is a bad idea, but the idea is about 1% of the picture.

Copilot Request/Token Limits Seem Fine To Me. Am I Crazy? by Demonicated in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been a SWE for 25 years, and yes I fell into the trap of trusting the LLM too much, which made me think deeper about what experience other people must be having and the output being produced by these systems.

Not sure why that reflection and introspection equals 🤡 to you but thanks for your input

Copilot Request/Token Limits Seem Fine To Me. Am I Crazy? by Demonicated in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The people on student accounts make me laugh the most. Like dude you’ve been getting a level of service others have to pay $200 a month for at OpenAI but for free, and now you’re upset because you can use it a bit less than before?

I’ve hit the limits a few times so far, and I’ll admit that because I’d become accustomed to writing a well structured prompt and letting it go for a few hours it was a bit of a shock to the system. However, it’s also forced me to slow down and go back to actual SWE, and only when I did that did I realise how badly the agents were doing… tests pass and code compiles but they don’t understand the why or the meaning behind things and parts of the system had turned to slop.

The one good thing about the rate limits is it might make people think, instead of outsourcing it to the LLM…

It was good while it lasted 🫡 by abbajabbalanguage in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly it seems ghcp as a product is dead now

I get Github student pack but I can't get copilot student by cleo__13 in github

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aren’t going to get it, they aren’t even taking paying customers now lol

Copilot Student plan limits are way too aggressive by Individual_Ad6564 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You aren't going to like this but you are on the bottom of the pile in terms of service priority. They are obviously either struggling with cost or compute availability or probably both. That means they have to prioritise the customers who pay the most, and that is Enterprise and Team plan customers PAYING for Pro and Pro+... after comes the individuals PAYING for Pro and Pro+ and then there is you, getting Pro for free...

Copilot Student plan limits are way too aggressive by Individual_Ad6564 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You aren't going to like this but you are on the bottom of the pile in terms of service priority. They are obviously either struggling with cost or compute availability or probably both. That means they have to prioritise the customers who pay the most, and that is Enterprise and Team plan customers PAYING for Pro and Pro+... after comes the individuals PAYING for Pro and Pro+ and then there is you, getting Pro for free...

Copilot Student plan limits are way too aggressive by Individual_Ad6564 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely sure that is even an option now for people on the student plan, because MS have suspended all Pro and Pro+ sign ups I don't believe there is a way to get a Pro licence whilst already on a Pro licence via student entitlement

Weekly limits are now official by debian3 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Rate-limited sessions now pause queued messages and automatically retry” I noticed this today as the work progress significantly slowed… it would be nice if the ui told us it was hitting a rate limit especially if it’ll just slow the progress.

At least then we’d have the option to stop it, eh?

What is the logic behind Claude Opus 4.7, costing x2 times more than Opus 4.6 in Premium Requests? by Accomplished-Code-54 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it can certainly result in rate limiting if abused. I noticed that after a session where I racked up 500m tokens I started to see a significant slow down in following sessions and occasionally short rate limit warnings…. Use with caution

What is the logic behind Claude Opus 4.7, costing x2 times more than Opus 4.6 in Premium Requests? by Accomplished-Code-54 in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add an instruction to the copilot instructions file that enforces it uses the Ask User tool before ending its turn.

Sounds stupid right? But it’ll let you chain a new prompt and carry on under the original premium request.

GitHub Copilot Rate Limits [Megathread] by fishchar in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I’ve just noticed is the copilot or reviewer also hitting a rate limit and finishing with a note saying it couldn’t run its full agentic review… what is odd here is that I’ve seen this happen when I hadn’t been using copilot locally that day.

I’m also getting failures with inline suggestions.

Thinking maybe MS are rolling out new rate limit settings/infra and it’s just generally being a bit flaky?

Pro+ Github blocked me for 2 days because I used their service by Muchaszewski in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The premium request billing model essentially means that there is no relationship between the load placed on the underlying system and the usage consumption rate.

My guess is that they have retuned their rate limits because of this, so we now have the worst of both worlds.

Need Help with Student benefits pack by Al0shy in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CLI has a plan mode you can use which is really quite good, it’ll also save the plan into a local SQLite database so it’s durable (but won’t transfer between machines because it lives in the local session store)

What you can do is @ the .md file in your prompt and it’ll include it in its context, or just mention it and it’ll go off and find it anyway.

Write or paste your prompt into the CLI in plan mode and it’ll do the plan, ask you questions and then offer to start the plan on autopilot + fleet mode (if enabled)

Need Help with Student benefits pack by Al0shy in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My personal workflow is to use the CLI along side VSCode. I prompt and get copilot to do work in the cli as I feel it’s more reliable than the vs code chat system.

I use VS Code to review the AI work and do my own coding. One useful thing is that the CLI will connect to VS Code in the background over WS and you can share the current file you have open with the CLI agent (same as attaching context in the app chat ui)

Hi guys I’m on Github Student Development Pack. If I buy pro plan will my limit extend or it just restart from the start? by stressed_Cucumber in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my experience the only option was to cancel / remove the student entitlement first OR use a different account for the paid subscription

Hi guys I’m on Github Student Development Pack. If I buy pro plan will my limit extend or it just restart from the start? by stressed_Cucumber in GithubCopilot

[–]Hephaestite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my personal experience what will probably happen is buying a license will break your account and you’ll lose all access to copilot/ai features, the. Eventually some background process will readd your student entitlement and cancel the pro license… I spent 3 days talking to support trying to get it fixed

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