GitHub Copilot Individual

The dominant theme in the top-voted HackerNews comments is the pricing/limits overhaul, not the coding capability itself. Users on Pro (~$10-12/mo) describe monthly 'premium request' budgets they 'watch in dread creep up,' plus newly added daily/weekly usage limits one user calls 'ambiguous at best.' The removal of Opus 4.6 from the plan is a flashpoint: one user had built a workflow assigning Copilot 'substantial issues' handled by Opus with subagents (30 min of work for ~3 premium requests) and calls the old pricing 'completely wrong... unsustainable for Microsoft to pay for,' while others say they now need a $39 Pro+ upgrade to keep Opus. Several describe a 'make customers happy and then rug pull' cycle, and there is visceral hatred of time-window limits: 'That's not how my creative energy works. I don't want a cooldown timer applied to solving a problem.' Many report cost-stacking workarounds: running $10 Copilot Pro alongside $20 Claude Pro with symlinked instruction files, switching tools when quotas hit — one user exhausted the Copilot quota halfway through the month. On value, the product still has strong defenders: '+544' comments argue 'the value add is the GitHub integration. By far the best' — cloud agents kickable from VS Code, enterprise policies on model access and MCP whitelists layered from enterprise down to org/repo. The older +161 thread is warmer: 'definitely worth the 10 bucks a month,' excellent for 'slightly repetitive' code, ~100 lines in 10 seconds (switch statement + JSON serialization pipeline), bash scripts in unfamiliar languages via comments, and impressively fast learning from local code (implementing a non-trivial Rust trait across ~20 types). Recurring quality complaints: it suggests the most common pattern even when buggy, writes 'complete blunders' and 'very subtle logical mistakes,' and in TypeScript/VSCode it overrides IntelliSense so it 'got in the way' — the reason one user quit. A license debate runs through the thread (trained on open source; the Quake square-root example) with the counterargument 'computers don't violate licenses, people do.' An educator warns education-package limits may push students to paid Claude Code ('a better product IMHO'). A notable counterpoint: some users say most tasks only need Haiku, ~10% Sonnet, Opus rarely — implying heavy-model users caused the pricing correction.

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