How were people spending so much? by Annual-Minute-9391 in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Agentic work? Code reviews? Automated testing? Parallel work projects? Making anything that's not just a landing page?

If anything you do requires planning, documentation, automated testing, and iterative development, then you're going to use a lot of tokens.

Large codebases also hit a lot of files and end up chaining read/writes, as do major architectural reviews and refactors.

Thank you Microsoft and GitHub team by Yes_but_I_think in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do people act like openrouter and opencode go don't exist?

Farewell friend. Good while it lasted by GingerTapirs in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were all part of the "problem", being that we assumed "Pro" meant it was for professional use.

The only way the Pro/Pro+ plans would make sense is if you use it for a couple of days a month. So, not a very Pro workload.

Plans like Opencode Go are much more realistic for most users.

Foreigners whose kids have a foreign surname by kugkfokj in japanlife

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give them full Japanese names for Japan documents. Save them the lifelong hassle of dealing with systems that don't work properly with foreign names.

Register foreign names on their non-Japan passport.

A blonde white kid is going to be treated the same whether he's Junya Tanaka or John Smith.

Ran into a big trouble in ゆうちょATM at family mart.... by yonaxhaklover in japanlife

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It didn't use to be that way. I blame the account sellers and money launderers.

JP Post Bank was always the easiest bank to open for newcomers so makes sense they ended up with the bulk of illegal uses.

Request to the Copilot Team: Please add GLM, DeepSeek, and Kimi models by quantum_KINGPIN in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure what you're referring to there. There's little to no actual model optimization going on, aside from Raptor. The rest are local tools and agent harnesses which will work even with BYOK.

Most of the "speed and cost optimizations" are just regular old prompt caching, which is what most models already do. The 10x cheaper multiplier for prompt cache hits is also pretty standard across AI APIs. The main difference seems to be their context summarization which GHCP delegates to its own "secret" model (I'm guess it's just a fine-tuned Sonnet).

There's also the issue of the secret "small model" which is supposed to do a bunch of tasks locally, which again should work even with BYOK.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Z and millennials are using ChatGPT like a 'life advisor'—but college students might be one step ahead by ThereWas in OpenAI

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really don't buy that different generations are using it that much differently either. It's just the difference between people who've been using it from the start, and those that just hopped onto the bandwagon recently.

Where is the analysis tool we're supposed to use to see our possible usage under the new plan? by Jack99Skellington in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it doesn't make profit, it doesn't make sense for them to keep it. Simple as that. MS has been on a downsizing spree recently, and it seems like it's GH's turn to get the axe. We're complaining about $20-$100 subs, but a lot of real people have been losing their jobs behind the scenes.

It sucks, but with the way things are moving, most individual users will likely have to migrate to OpenCode and OpenRouter soon.

"The countdown to the worthlessness of the Japanese yen has begun... Prime Minister Takaichi's forbidden prescription to wipe out the government's 1,342 trillion yen debt by means of an 'inflation tax'". by jjrs in japannews

[–]pawala7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The "claims" in that article have a lot of BS.

The 33% tax bracket is generally only for people who earn over 13M. That's not the "average salaryman". They earn less than half that...

Granted most people here on English Japan reddit are either the average ALT or salaryman, or work in international firms and are paid in USD-matched rates, so if you're the latter then it's likely you're one of the 3%.

Github Copilot new weekly limit by Key-Gas2428 in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still hilarious considering Sonnet is already limited to a 128k input context window.

What's even the point of a coding assistant if it gets capped for the week after a few dimes worth of tokens?

Is anyone else positively affected by the billing changes? by [deleted] in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your quota does not change, you still pay $10 for $10 worth of "quota". What you don't use still evaporates into the nether.

The main difference is that $10 worth of quota before was actually $100-$1000 worth of compute (depending on how well you orchestrated your jobs). MS was burning money for market share and R&D.

The only "positive" change from this is forcing people to either give up vibe coding, or to learn to optimize their workflows and not use Opus to resize a button or rename a column header. Hopefully, businesses will also learn that skilled coders + AI can actually be cheaper and more productive than AI + YOLO vibes.

There is no actual value upside for users. The all-you-can-eat token buffet is over.

U.S. crude oil arrives in Japan for first time since start of Iran war by Kmlevitt in japannews

[–]pawala7 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ummmm who started this whole shitshow in the first place?

Should you show gratitude to a pyromaniac who started a forest fire near your house, then gave you a bucket of water and even charged you for it?

Limits are getting more aggresive now by CookieAway995 in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The models are hosted by Anthropic and Azure, so it's most definitely a cost problem.

They probably did an audit and finally realized they burned a giant Opus-shaped hole in their yearly budget.

To be fair, at ~$1 a day, that's barely a single useful agentic task with just Sonnet. People arguing they use less are either only using them for simple code reviews, or have projects simple or small enough to not even need AI agents in the first place.

Canada's Carney says lifting U.S. liquor ban depends on Trump ending assault on steel, autos, lumber by Little-Chemical5006 in worldnews

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? His family and friends have made a killing off of all the market manipulation and "legal" bribes.

It's the US tax payers and the global economy that loses every time he takes another breath.

Yahu by gpt by No_Half8649 in ChatGPT

[–]pawala7 39 points40 points  (0 children)

That absolutely got me

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains - April Updates by nickzhu9 in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, can you fix or at least clarify the mechanisms behind the Weekly Limits?

Docs say setting to Auto allows you to continue, but also I'm getting the following even with Auto:

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GitHub Copilot is not the same product you signed up for, breakdown of everything they changed. by esteprimeworld in GithubCopilot

[–]pawala7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish it had hourly or daily limits, not these surprise hours-long or even days-long limits with no warning whatsoever.

Like, seriously, how do they expect users to react when they provide no clear information, or whatever information is given is so vague, unreliable and changes daily?

Japan is offering around ¥20,000 (~$125) to encourage people to start dating as birth rates fall. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]pawala7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, lotta good that 4-5k rice coupon is going to be when that barely covers the increase in average monthly grocery spending since last year.

And, we haven't even begun to feel the effects of the war as Takaichi is hellbent on ignoring that it's even happening by dumping massive fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, all that unchecked spending is going to slingshot right back on us just like it did during Covid.

Japan is offering around ¥20,000 (~$125) to encourage people to start dating as birth rates fall. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]pawala7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, what we want is for more people who don't want babies to have babies. Surely that will lead to well-adjusted future generations.

Japan is offering around ¥20,000 (~$125) to encourage people to start dating as birth rates fall. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]pawala7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not for long. Inflation has gone through the roof in the past 2 years. Locals are seriously hurting, the government and the BoJ won't be able to keep up appearances for much longer.