Copilot will ask us for money: €10 per month if you want to use it from this summer

What a bummer. After recommend it to fellow students and co-workers, today I recommended it to two from a company where they do programming work, I open my Visual Studio Code and see that Copilot shows me a new message. That she hadn't finished setting it up, she said. How not? If I've been using it for weeks, what do you want now? Money. Wants money. It was too nice to be true, a help of this type for those who already know something, and it was, but it will soon be over.

I had never read anything that Copilot was going to be Paymentwhy lie He thought that, like Google, they would have enough with telemetry, and we would also opt for the Microsoft editor with help like this, but no. It will cost money, and not a little unless all or a significant portion of your salary comes from writing code. There will be people who will pay for it, sure, but not those who are not going to pay it off, logically.

Copilot will be free for students and verified project maintainers

For those of us who have already been testing it, they thank us for having done so, that thanks to us all this has been improving, and for this reason they will allow us to use it for two more months. In August you will have to pay €10/month, or €100/year, or it simply won't work. And it is that Copilot works in a similar way to Siri or Google Assistant: in order to “respond” you need to be connected to the internet, and we also have to be logged in with our GitHub account.

All good things come to an end, and the thing that they were opening it to all users was just a mirage. In this link we can see the payment plans, where they also say that the students and project maintainers will be able to use it for free, but not the rest. It is one of many things that they offer for free at first, and then they ask you for money when you are used to it. Well, nothing, you can only say that it was nice while it lasted.