If there’s one big takeaway from the AI coding space this week, it’s that the era of flat-rate, all-you-can-code pricing is coming to an end — and the bill is arriving faster than some might have anticipated. The clearest illustration came from GitHub, which retired Copilot’s fixed subscription model in favor of token-based billing, tying costs directly to consumption. The backlash, which was already brewing since the announcement in April, was real.