Welcome to Syntax. We've got a Pollock episode for you today. We're talking about everybody

is getting hacked. We're going to talk a lot about that. The new LLM usage-based pricing, I think the

free lunch is over, and the GitHub co-pilot is now 27 times the cost for some of these models, which

thousands of dollars, right? The best way to manage your node and package manager versions, we got a little tip for you.

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What's up, Scott? Good to see you here. Oh, hey, man. Good to see you as well. It's a fine day, fine day this morning. Fine day. A lot of stuff's been going on lately. We've got lots to talk about. Let's just jump into the first one here, which is a question that says, what do you think about co-pilot's new usage-based pricing? So if you didn't see this, you probably got an email about it, but GitHub sent out an email saying,

like, we're moving to usage-based billing rather than these like all-you-can-eat subscriptions.

And I think we're starting to see this, not just with GitHub copilot, but we're seeing it with a lot of people,

is they didn't, nobody realized how much we are going to be using these models right like initially

it was like you just type you have tab completion or you type in the box and you get an answer back

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