Microsoft is reportedly ending most Claude Code licenses after AI coding costs surged, shifting staff to GitHub Copilot CLI 💸
Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget in four months, showing token-heavy AI workflows can outpace labor savings and raise compute dependence 🔓

🔗 https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

#TechNews #Microsoft #ClaudeCode #GitHubCopilot #Anthropic #AI #GenAI #LLM #OpenSource #Privacy #Cloud #Compute #Automation #Developers #BigTech #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #GitHub #Coding #Uber

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

Fortune

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 15-22, 2026

Andrej Karpathy reframed his own term "vibe coding". Giants like Google and Anthropic are hiring forward-deployed engineers by the dozen to embed at customer sites and make their own models actually do something _useful_. GitHub, one of the leading companies building these tools, gets hacked via their own tools. Markdown is the new stack overflow vulnerability.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-15-22-2026/

#forwarddeployedengineer #fde #githubcopilot #vibecoding

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 15-22, 2026

OpenAI ran a negative 122% operating margin in Q1, Andrej Karpathy reframed his own term "vibe coding" as "raising the floor for everyone", putting it in sharp contrast with "agentic engineering". Giants like Google and Anthropic are hiring forward-deployed engineers by the dozen to embed at customer sites and make

Agentic engineering weekly

Dal 1° giugno 2026, GitHub Copilot passa dal modello a "richieste premium" a un sistema basato su crediti di utilizzo.
Ho fatto una simulazione con il mio utilizzo molto leggero e il risultato è chiaro: costi raddoppiati (10$/mese -> 20$/mese).
Per chi usa Copilot più intensivamente, si profilano vere e proprie impennate.

Suggerimento: Monitorate attentamente l'utilizzo nei prossimi mesi e valutate se il nuovo modello vi conviene realmente.

@informatica #GitHubCopilot

Eight levers and three workflow patterns that pay for themselves in a week. A team of fifty developers can quietly burn $30,000 a month on AI coding assistants without anyone noticing. Premium-request quotas vanish by the third week. The bill arrives. Nobody has a story for where it went. The cost is the obvious pain.…...
#AITokens #ContextManagement #GitHubCopilot
https://foojay.io/today/context-is-a-budget-eight-levers-and-three-workflow-patterns/
Context Is a Budget — Reducing Token Usage in AI-Assisted Development

Eight levers and three workflow patterns that pay for themselves in a week.

foojay

From the Visual Studio blog...

In case you missed it earlier...

Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/plan-before-you-build-introducing-the-plan-agent-in-visual-studio/ #Copilot #VisualStudio #agents #AIAgents #GitHubCopilot #Planagent #Planning #PlanningMode

GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

We’ve known for years that the chatbot vendors run at a massive loss. OpenAI was spending $2.35 for each $1 of revenue in 2024, and it’s only got worse since then. Anthropic keeps pushing its price…

Pivot to AI