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Flat-rate AI plans are broken. Blame AI agents

… As Copilot’s agentic capabilities have expanded rapidly, agents are doing more work, and more customers are hitting usage limits designed to maintain service reliability. Without further action, service quality degrades for everyone. …

Apr 21, 2026 · By Ben Patterson

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Vibe coding apps taught me how hard real coding is

… The one app that does work fairly well--a graphical dashboard that tracks the status of my Docker Swarm setup, a “unified cluster” configuration that allows various software services to dynamically float from computer node to another--took me about a week to vibe code, and the process went fairly s… …

Mar 16, 2026 · By Ben Patterson