Benjamin Juarez

Innovator, tinkerer, programmer, sometimes data nerd. I love to learn, and I love mi familia!

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing this morning and users are already out of credits. Pro+ subscribers paying $39 a month are reporting 60% of their credits gone in two hours of normal use. One user lost 20% of their allowance from a single file review with no code changes. Another hit their monthly cap before the calendar even flipped to June.
Orgs with shared token pools have no way to see individual usage, so entire teams get cut off when one person runs a heavy prompt. Users are canceling and moving to Claude Code and Codex. GitHub community forums are on fire.

My Take
Flat-rate AI subscriptions were always subsidized. Everyone in the industry knew it. Today the subsidy ran out for a few million developers at once. The problem is a lot of companies already restructured around these tools. They cut headcount and told remaining engineers to lean on Copilot instead of building skills internally. Those companies now depend on a tool whose cost just became unpredictable and whose usefulness completely changes when you have to ration prompts to stay under budget.

The developers moving to Claude Code and Codex will hit the same wall eventually. Every AI provider faces the same unit economics. Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning, and the durability of its revenue depends on whether customers stick around once real pricing kicks in everywhere. If a $39 subscriber cancels after one day because the tool became unusable, multiply that across millions of seats and the churn risk becomes very real.

Today showed what happens when AI pricing meets reality. The companies that built their workflows around cheap tokens just discovered the tokens aren't cheap anymore and the people who knew how to do the work without them are already gone.

Hedgie🤗

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's CEO after firing the engineer who built their $1.79B infrastructure and the guy released a 38-minute breakdown of everything he built, free for anyone to copy

[SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @playsegasaturn]

In our quest to highlight Saturn fan translations this year, it’s also worth mentioning the handful of English activation patches available. Some Japanese games have English text baked right in, but no way to activate it. Enter Kingdom Grand Prix.

#sega #saturn #BestOfSaturn

[Benjamin Juarez @BenjaminJuarez1]

@MoonPieDreams “…being used for the next big Sonic game! Coming this winter.” Reading that made me go 😔

[SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @playsegasaturn]

The Shining Force 3 trilogy is unquestionably the longest "labor of love" fan translation project in the Saturn’s history.

Read Peter's thoughts on these games in today's #BestOfSaturn:

https://t.co/LVW4hvacJf

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos.

You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before.

The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.

[Benjamin Juarez @BenjaminJuarez1]

@MoonPieDreams Wing Arms. Was criminally underrated back then, and moreso today.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Armed masked man starts fight at high school ICE protest—turns out to be off duty police sergeant.

His plan was to trick students to "assault me"—then "arrest them all."

Then called his buddies with rifles to "back him up."

Sgt. Dusten Mullen makes $336,000 a year—making him a top 10 earner in the Phoenix Police Department.

He is currently on administrative leave—which means he's reassigned to work from home.

Incident occurred outside Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona.

[𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 GAZETTE🇺🇸🇺🇦 @FrancisWegner]

My favorite part of the Bible is when Jesus Christ defeats the Antichrist effortlessly at his Second Coming, specifically at the Battle of Armageddon. The victory occurs when Jesus destroys the "lawless one" and casts him into the lake of fire.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Benjamin Juarez @BenjaminJuarez1]

@dantemendes I remember playing this game for the first time on an emulator and thinking, “how did I not play this back when I was a kid. Pretty good!”

[Benjamin Juarez @BenjaminJuarez1]

@dantemendes Right, that’s what I meant to say. I had a NES and feel like I missed out on the SMS. Thank goodness for emulation. 🙏

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

25TH AMENDMENT!!!
Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization.
This is evil and madness.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.
Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.
I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons?
Israel.
They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.
Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.
On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.
Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.
Not escalating war that is hurting people.
This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.
This is not making America great again, this is evil.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Drunker than ever before. More drunk than anyone has ever seen.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

[Benjamin Juarez @BenjaminJuarez1]

@THELEGACYOFSEGA Not funny 😐

[Senator Marco Rubio: Archived @SenMarcoRubio]

No U.S. President should be able to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval.

Thankful my colleagues in Congress passed this bipartisan measure.