paddo.dev: Compute Demands — Copilot Joins the AI Coding Pricing Trilogy
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Published today, paddo.dev examines how three AI coding vendors are restructuring commercial models simultaneously: GitHub Copilot suspends individual signups and shifts to token-based billing in June, Anthropic tests removing Claude Code from the $20 Pro tier, and Cursor tightens fast-request quotas. The root cause across all three is identical — agentic workflows burn 5-10x more compute than autocomplete, and subscription pricing can't absorb it.