The GitHub Copilot News is Just the Latest Sign That the Era of Free Compute is Over

GitHub Copilot is switching to usage-based billing starting June 1, replacing flat-rate premium requests with AI Credits tied to token consumption. The author argues this is part of a broader industry shift away from subsidized AI compute, citing Anthropic's similar move and the SpaceX–Cursor deal as further evidence. The SpaceX partnership is framed not as a productivity story but as a compute alignment deal, with SpaceX pairing Cursor with its Colossus supercomputer equivalent to a million Nvidia H100 chips. The post concludes with a pitch for Kilo Code's model-agnostic, BYOK approach as the rational response to an era where compute costs are no longer hidden.