The Subscription You Don't Actually Own: What GitHub Copilot's New Pricing Reveals About AI Tool Dependency

Your IDE autocompletes a function signature in 200 milliseconds. You hit "Accept" without thinking. Three months later, you're staring at that same function during a production incident at 2am, and you can't explain why it works. That cognitive disconnect is the tax you pay for AI-assisted development. But here's the cost nobody talks about: what happens when the subscription runs out? A V2EX discussion this week surfaced a concern that's quietly becoming universal. GitHub Copilot released a p...