Spot testing by Ars Technica found that re-running our simple “build a Minesweeper game” prompt through Claude Haiku 4.5 via Copilot used about 94 credits (you can view the results here). That’s a pretty decent rate for a relatively simple toy project. But it’s also easy to see how those kinds of costs could balloon quickly for requests involving major changes or reviews on complex codebases. You can see that kind of ballooning cost in reports of a single complex prompt burning through 171 Copilot credits, or another spending 700 credits on “a few prompts,” or a couple of Copilot-led commits u
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.… Coder Henri Kinnunen writes that they only burned 161 credits in a “productive day” of using GPT 5.3-Codex through Copilot, thanks to limiting themselves to “very focused and deliberate changes with AI.” Over on Bluesky, coder Neil Hewitt wisely noted that continuing a three-day-old chat session on… …
… The announcement was accompanied by an increase in those usage limits; Anthropic doubled Claude Code’s five-hour window limits for Pro and Max subscribers, removed the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for those same accounts, and raised API limits for its Opus model. …
… Because, again, people get very frustrated with usage limits. …
… Tigert also told Politico that the county failed to notice the water usage because it’s understaffed, explaining that the only worker available to inspect meters is “spread pretty thin.” Ultimately, the county dismissed QTS’s excess water usage as a “procedural mix-up,” Tigert said, retroactively c… …
… Further, Anthropic will be doubling five-hour usage limits for subscribers to its Pro and Max subscription plans, responding to a lot of user frustration as the company’s compute infrastructure has struggled to keep up with demand. …
… You hear a lot of complaints around the Internet about how AI is changing Google’s search products, but Google is getting what it wants: more searches. Reid revealed at I/O 2026 that AI Mode usage has been doubling every quarter. There are now more than 1 billion people using AI Mode every month. …