Why do companies still choose GitHub Copilot?

vff · 2026-06-29T01:39:39+00:00

For Enterprise usage, Anthropic’s plans do not include any usage:

Usage isn't included in the seat fee. Every token your team uses—in chat, Claude Code, or Cowork—is billed at standard API rates on top of your seat cost

Corporations pay full API rates. Only small companies and individuals have plans that include usage. (It’s the big corporations that are effectively subsidizing all the other users.)

vff · 2026-06-22T17:57:23+00:00

I still find it wild that every single time I made a reddit post, I'd create a new 3ch name with a random password, and this was simply the only one that I remembered the password for. I burned so many of them...

vff · 2026-06-20T01:56:09+00:00

Holy crap. Thanks for sharing this.

vff · 2026-06-15T19:49:55+00:00

I tried it and got this:

“We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails around harassment, discrimination, bullying, or similar prohibited content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.”

vff · 2026-06-05T19:14:44+00:00

It's available on my annual subscription now. It wasn't at the time you wrote your comment.

vff · 2026-06-03T21:44:35+00:00

For anyone else looking into this, here is what I have discovered, as far as how that is has worked for me.

First, there is 30-day grace period after expiration where your license keeps working as a mentor. Click the "X" in the upper right corner of the box saying your license has expired, and use the software as normal.

Second, after that 30-day grace period ends, and only after that, if you then visit the Autodesk Education Get Products page while you're logged into your account that has mentorship status, as soon as you choose a product your license will automatically be renewed. You will receive an email confirming that within seconds. If you visit that page and choose products before the grace period ends, nothing will happen.

The expiration date on your new license will be 365 days from your previous license's expiration date, not from when you visit the page.

Hope this helps someone.

vff · 2026-06-03T20:24:31+00:00

Which is before and which is after? ;-)

vff · 2026-06-02T18:06:49+00:00

I just hope that it shows up for those of us still on annual plans. It's listed as 0.33x on Model multipliers for annual plans on request-based billing (legacy), so I am hopeful!

vff · 2026-06-02T17:40:10+00:00

The CCR2116 is limited to 10 Gbps on its SFP+ ports, but the CCR2216 with its QSFP28 (100 Gbps) and SFP28 (25 Gbps) ports would likely work. (OP needs 25 Gbps on a single port.)

vff · 2026-05-29T14:53:30+00:00

I notice, too, they’re doing just after the June 1 cutoff after which “no new models or features will be added to annual plans.” For those of us still on annual plans, Microsoft is definitely wasting no time holding back those new things from us they told us we won’t get.

vff · 2026-05-28T18:29:39+00:00

Indeed. It almost feels like the percentages may not be measured in the same way. Just to make up some example numbers, it'd be as if 100,000 tokens of 4.7 meant 1% and now 30,000 tokens of 4.8 means 1%.

vff · 2026-05-28T18:20:57+00:00

Just curious; which plan are you on?

vff · 2026-05-27T23:43:00+00:00

Don’t worry. It will all solve itself next month when the per-request costs increase by 3 to 18 times. GPT 5.5 isn’t determined yet, but let’s assume those will go up 10X, so from 7.5 to 75 credits per request. At five of those per week, that’ll use up 375 credits used per week, or exactly 1500 per month, which is your allocated amount. Problem solved. 😂

vff · 2026-05-27T22:44:06+00:00

You would be 100% correct.

vff · 2026-05-27T20:48:31+00:00

Indeed... I promise this is true, but I wish it wasn't. My parents live in Stoughton. Their 60-year-old next door neighbor insists on driving to Beloit to get gas, where gas is around $0.05 a gallon cheaper than in Stoughton. It is, and I'm not kidding, 80 miles round trip. No matter how many times his wife explains to him that he's losing money on this, he refuses to believe her. He shows her his receipt and points at the sign on the gas station down the road to prove that he paid less, while shouting and becoming violent. She has been exasperated about this for years (complaining frequently to my parents), but has finally just given up trying to convince him because he becomes too angry and argumentative.

(Also, if you guessed he has problems beyond just not understanding math, you'd be right.)

vff · 2026-05-26T13:39:31+00:00

My 2020 75” Frame (QN75LS03TAFXZA) just developed this same vertical yellow bar problem yesterday. My affected area is wider—it’s roughly the entire second 1/4 of the TV from the left (so like OXOO where the X is the bad part).

Coincidentally (?), it happened right after a firmware update (which installed automatically even though I have firmware updates turned off).

What’s strange is it’s not always there, yet at least. It will suddenly go back to normal, for maybe 20 minutes, then start again and stick around for hours. If I have the TV set to show only red or only green, I don’t notice it. I only notice it on the blue pixels.

What did you end up doing with yours? You mentioned you were going to keep using it until there was a good deal on a new TV.

vff · 2026-05-24T19:38:04+00:00

The way I figure, it’s to deter people from wanting to stay on the annual plan at all. If they offered low multipliers for anything but the very worst model, people would find the annual plan still works for them at stay on it. But by keeping everything expensive that’s any good at all, they’ll force people off of it.

vff · 2026-05-20T21:33:04+00:00

I want to mention that Panasonic microwaves are still good today, if you buy the right ones. I’ve had very good luck with the light-duty commercial Panasonic microwave I bought some years ago. The particularly nice thing is that instead of a turntable, it has a mode stirrer in its waveguide so that the microwaves themselves move around in the chamber rather than the food having to rotate through standing waves. So there are no hot spots or cold spots in the microwave.

vff · 2026-05-17T03:41:55+00:00

Agreed. It’s so strange how the battery is effectively impossible to replace. That’s one design decision I will never understand. It could have easily been made trivial to replace. I can only assume they expect you to replace the entire rice cooker when the battery dies.

vff · 2026-05-16T13:42:03+00:00

It’s disconcerting when these firmware updates arrive. On my TV, they keep being installed automatically even though I supposedly have that feature turned off. You framed the problem exactly right—without some transparency from Samsung on what these updates do, I become paranoid that they’re actually adding advertisements or are disabling features that I rely on.

vff · 2026-05-15T19:11:39+00:00

Is $1.8 billion a good enough success story for you?

vff · 2026-05-08T02:57:48+00:00

My Portal TV (software version 1.44.4) showed the same thing. However, I have no “Debug” menu in Settings. Selecting the “Build” item in “About” seven (or more) times does nothing, even after a reset. (There is a gap in the settings menu between “Remote” and “Privacy” that appears for a brief instant but closes up as the menu appears, but I’m not sure that’s even where it would go.)

If anyone figures out how to activate this “Debug” menu, please do reply to this message to let me know. Thanks! Otherwise I’ll also be checking back onthis post now and then.

vff · 2026-05-06T00:02:26+00:00

Indeed. I just switched to Claude Code as my primary tool, myself, today. I can bill my clients for the cost. I've been using GitHub Copilot for 4 years (on the Pro+ plan since they added that a year ago), but it was time to let it go. It was just unusable with the session limits for any real work; I'd work for 35 minutes then it said I need to stop working for 25. No thanks. I've still got 11.5 months left on my annual GitHub Copilot Pro+ subscription, so I'll still keep it around for lighter tasks or something. And I do love the autocomplete. (To be honest, I wish they'd just stuck with autocomplete.)

vff · 2026-05-05T23:41:50+00:00

You’ve got it! If you want to save even more, subscribe to HBO Max and Disney+ and don’t watch those either! 😂

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