GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by 0xffff2 on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:09PM (#47925883)

I'm curious about the opposite: Why would anyone use the CLI when, at least with Copilot, the VSCode plugin is super tightly integrated with VSCode, meaning the agent can see everything I can see. There's no mismatch in linter calls where I can see a lint in the ide that the agent can't find for example. I've had this problem even using CC in their VSCode extension, so I can't imagine it's not an issue in the CLI as well.

What's actually better in the CLI?

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by sz4kerto on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:57PM (#47926529)

We need sandboxing for any agent, so we run it within Docker - so we use CLI.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by 0xffff2 on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:38PM (#47927007)

I use vscode with containers extensively. Not sure why containers imply CLI.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by nqzero on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:40PM (#47929940)

do you run vscode in the container ? if so, can you share your config ?

i've been trying to do this with systemd-nspawn

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by chris_money202 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @06:15AM (#47932489)

Easiest way to do it would be enable ssh in container and then use VSCode ssh extension. Your host VSCode “becomes” your container VSCode.

I run it natively on my rocky8 container with UI sometimes but usually just do ssh

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by nl on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:13PM (#47929776)

I use the Claude Code VSCode plugin for 80% of my work.

I prefer it because I can look at the code (although not as often anymore) and config (very often!) easily.

It also lets me jump to previous conversations easily.

There are a few cases where the CLI makes sense. One big one is if you are running multiple simultaneous sessions on a remote server using Tmux to have them preconfigured when you reconnect is nice.

Bun in general I don't see the benefit either.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing by krzyk on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:31AM (#47931460)

You can look at the code in editor or IDE even when CLI agent is doing work.

I do that when I want to, but for me using agents in IDE is like looking with one eye covered.

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