GitHub Copilot went usage-based, so I built a linter for AI context files
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As I'm sure a lot of you saw, GitHub Copilot recently moved from request-based billing to usage-based billing :( Copilot is the main AI coding tool I use day-to-day, so the change made me look a lot harder at how much context I was actually feeding these tools. No more casually attaching half the repo and saying "loop until done" without wondering what that costs. ...not that I ever did that... But the more I looked into it, the more I realized the token count was only part of the problem. The…
1Key Takeaways
- As I'm sure a lot of you saw, GitHub Copilot recently moved from request-based billing to usage-based billing :( Copilot is the main AI coding tool I use day-to-day, so the change made me look a lot harder at how much context I was actually feeding these tools.
- No more casually attaching half the repo and saying "loop until done" without wondering what that costs.
- But the more I looked into it, the more I realized the token count was only part of the problem.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that as I'm sure a lot of you saw, GitHub Copilot recently moved from request-based billing to usage-based billing :( Copilot is the main AI coding tool I use day-to-day, so the change made me look a lot harder at how much context I was actually feeding these tools.
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