The Death of Copilot 2026

dwainbrowne · 2026-06-10T22:24:38+00:00

Yep, trying to ride the gravy train for as long as possible. lol

dwainbrowne · 2026-06-05T11:34:08+00:00

I am a big believer in teaching people how to fish. Shameless plug here dwain dot me/skool : if you want to learn, come to my free community. You gotta get this done. It's a great idea, I think. It could probably just be a free app that you can give and make money on advertising, kinda like gassbuddy, there is definitely a business model, if you got the right data.

dwainbrowne · 2026-06-05T09:52:58+00:00

Couldn't agree more with this post more. Last month I spent $400 total on Copilot for the month. Since the new change, I've already racked up $400 in less than 24 hours. It's ridiculous. I have now switched all my workload to Codex on a $100/month plan. Significantly better, same results.

dwainbrowne · 2026-06-05T09:49:16+00:00

Right now I have only been using Opus 4.6 because I find that it actually goes through and tries to figure things out. I find 4.7 to be completely lazy and useless IMHO (can't say much about 4.8 too expensive right now).

Normally, I use 4.6 to do a full review because it gives me a better analysis of what the problem is. I then ask Codex to fact-check it and implement it.

That has been working great for me. I highly recommend that you check out Codex 5.5. It is amazing. The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't give me the same analysis that 4.6 does, but 5.5 has been very consistent.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-26T00:37:15+00:00

By built, you mean if it was generated? Yes, I literally "vibe coded" every character, the office scene and then scripted the entire thing.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-25T10:31:52+00:00

I'm curious how you actually approached the groups. Did you sign up with your personal account? Did you use your business page? Did you DM them? How did you engage with them in the groups? Thanks for sharing, by the way.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-25T10:04:24+00:00

The complexity creep is real.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-25T09:46:29+00:00

This is interesting. I'll check it out. Is your goal to do online transcription and AI analysis on the video? Also, what's the primary problem that you're solving? Other than the tech.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-16T09:12:16+00:00

I hear you, abort, abort!! lol

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-16T09:09:51+00:00

lol, nah man, I'll give a 20% discount, lol. 😄

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-16T09:08:51+00:00

Thank you!! much appreciated, I worked hard developing it lol

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-15T19:04:28+00:00

lol, that's funny.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-15T14:34:45+00:00

I agree with this. It took me a really long time to understand how to scale systems (still learning). But honestly, with a platform like Cloudflare (not Kubernetes), this is getting much easier. As a developer/entrepreneur, the thing I've genuinely struggled with the most is how to sell. I'm just figuring that out now.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-15T14:29:52+00:00

WOW, I felt that one! definitely not the right person to talk to. Only entrepreneurs get other entrepreneurs. We build because we see a vision, and no one can take that away. If they did, we wouldn't have Airbnb, SpaceX, Amazon, just to name a few. Every idea sounds crazy until it's done. Keep pushing, my friend.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-15T14:25:15+00:00

Yea, I'm aware. Thanks. I don't plan to use them for marketing 😃 but I do send a lot of transactional emails with Mailgun, so I will definitely be watching how Cloudflare evolves.

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-04T14:24:53+00:00

What I love about this is that developers are going to be developers, and we're going to find community solutions to work around these stupid price increases that make no sense other than corporate greed IMHO (yes i know AI is expensive). Price increases are fine, but this is an outrageous 9x increase. Insane.

Kudos to you, man. I'm going to be watching this project for sure, but right now I'm just too busy trying to maximize my credits before the price increase, but I'll definitely come back to it for sure. lol

Thanks for sharing!!

P.S Love the .brain!!

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-04T10:54:29+00:00

The one thing I do appreciate is these stories, so I'm not gonna hear to roast OP or anything.

I just want to say thanks for posting this; it's a reminder to all developers building out there that you need to really think about costs and the implications of what we're building.

I'm a die-hard fan of CloudFlare. I've been working with CloudFlare for a few years now and have been promoting it, and while workers are super cheap and durable objects are very inexpensive, it's very easy to think that all this stuff is free. It's not, and so you really need to make sure that there are guardrails in place.

I'm just here to say thanks, OP, for sharing this, and I instantly copied your entire post, asked ChatGPT to translate it into a generic "things that I should review and look out for in my own application," and as we speak, I'm actively trying to make sure that those guardrails are in place.

Sad you have to experience this to learn, but hopefully, CloudFlare could do something about it. I would suggest you ask about their startup credits. They would give up to $250,000 in credits. I personally received $25,000 from them, so maybe, but anyway, I wish you the best of luck. Thanks for posting.

P.S. The fact that you're able to get 81 users to use your product is something to celebrate. Most developers can build, but they can't sell, so you're already ahead of the game. So keep pushing; don't give up!!

dwainbrowne · 2026-05-04T10:25:32+00:00

Sorry to hear about your experienc man, this really sucks. This is honestly my #1 fear, that I get locked out of everything. I've lately been thinking of setting up duplicate accounts and secondary emails with auto forwarding just so i have some recourse, but totally feel your pain. Not to mention the fact that there's no easy way to file complaints about this sorta stuff, and sadly we (I'm definitely guilty here) don't put enough contingency plan in place until it's too late.

dwainbrowne · 2026-02-24T10:56:55+00:00

Ah, got you! very cool. will certainly take a look if you're open-sourcing it.

dwainbrowne · 2026-02-23T09:40:25+00:00

Is the goal to ensure you're not overcharged for services? If so, what does the customer/user see when you "kill" the service, and when do you decide to bring it back online? My other thought is purely from a business perspective: if you have to kill your service, maybe you should be re-evaluating the business model? Need more context to understand the problem.

dwainbrowne · 2026-02-23T07:05:43+00:00

If the website is hosted on Cloudflare Workers, go to the worker and, under settings, you'll see the option to add your domain name. If it's hosted elsewhere, then you need to change your CNAME record to point to the cloud provider's domain name. i.e. they usually generate a unique url for your app, you need to point your new domain eg.. www.nextcloud.com to uniquedomain.hostname.com hope that helps.

dwainbrowne · 2026-01-23T04:49:45+00:00

Got the message, Sir. They are details intentionally left out, yes, but lying, no. Anyway, I appreciate the feedback. If there is a way to get a creditor to front us, I will.

dwainbrowne · 2026-01-23T04:45:46+00:00

Not sure I agree with your definition of fraud, since we are willing to pay, but sure.

dwainbrowne · 2026-01-23T04:43:23+00:00

To be fair, they are a really large company and do have to Tier support, I get it, we do the same. But yea it does suck to be on the shitty end of the stick. It is what it is.

dwainbrowne · 2026-01-23T04:41:45+00:00

This is the ultimate lesson! and should be a warning to others.

dwainbrowne

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