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From “500 Requests a Month” to a Token Ledger: What GitHub Copilot’s Pricing Shift Really Means
In June 2025, Cursor replaced its individual plan’s “500 requests per month” cap with a token ledger backed by a pool of API credits. Less than a year later, on June 1, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot would move its entire product line to the same accounting model. Two products, two different positions in the…
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After the AI Coding Boom: Will Programmers Really Be Displaced En Masse?
For the past two years, the debate over the fate of programmers has been dominated by two camps. One insists that code is being “eaten” by large language models, and that the programming profession will soon be automated the way assembly-line work once was. The other is more sanguine, framing AI as merely the next…
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Is There Still a Point to Building a Personal Blog in the Age of AI?
I’d been meaning to start my own blog for ages. I did set one up, once, but never really invested in it. This past Spring Festival holiday, with a rare stretch of free time on my hands, it struck me that the server I’d been paying for had been sitting idle for far too long.…