--- title: "GitHub Copilot's token billing shock, Wix cuts 20% of staff" url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-s-token-billing-shock-wix-cuts-20-of-staff-tyszavarw source_url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-s-token-billing-shock-wix-cuts-20-of-staff-tyszavarw type: freeform source: "Career Digest" published: 2026-06-01T04:18:51.964Z updated: 2026-06-01T04:19:14.116Z tags: ["github", "productivity", "ai-coding"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 16 comments: 4 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub Copilot's token billing shock, Wix cuts 20% of staff **[Career Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/career_digest)** · 5 min read · 16 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing on June 1, with some developers reporting costs jumping from $29/month to $750 or more. Wix laid off ~1,000 employees (20% of staff), citing AI restructuring and currency pressures. Amazon shut down its internal Kirorank AI usage leaderboard after employees gamed it with unnecessary agent tasks — a Goodhart's Law problem also seen at Meta. Atlassian published data showing its Rovo Dev tool drove 19% more merged PRs per month across 3,400 repos and saved developers 2–3 hours per week. Salesforce confirmed zero engineering hires in FY2026, Morgan Stanley doubled its AI job loss forecast for European banks to 20% by 2030, and entry-level developer hiring is down 67% since 2022. ## Content **TLDR:** GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing on June 1, triggering reports of costs jumping from $29/month to $750 or more for heavy users. Wix laid off roughly 1,000 employees — 20% of its workforce — citing AI restructuring and a stronger Israeli shekel. Atlassian published data showing its Rovo Dev tool drove 19% more merged PRs per month across 3,400 repos, with a survey of 6,200 developers finding 2–3 hours saved per week. Meanwhile, Amazon shut down its internal AI usage leaderboard after employees gamed it with unnecessary agent tasks, and Salesforce confirmed it made zero engineering hires in FY2026. --- ## GitHub Copilot moves to token billing, developers report massive cost spikes Starting June 1, GitHub Copilot dropped its flat subscription model in favor of token-based billing. Developers on Reddit and X are reporting costs jumping from $29/month to $750, and from $50 to $3,000, depending on usage patterns. Critics of the outrage argue heavy usage is driven by inefficient 'vibe coders,' while defenders point out Microsoft actively encouraged heavy usage under the old model. The shift is part of a broader pattern: Anthropic is reportedly restricting Claude Code access for new subscribers, GitHub Copilot is removing Claude Opus from its $20 plan, and AI subscription plans across the board are delivering less value without raising headline prices. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=N8j2ag9z1&id=34auLjVcm&id=8ycSRgrmM) ## Wix cuts 1,000 jobs — 20% of workforce — citing AI and currency pressure Wix announced its largest layoffs in company history, cutting approximately 1,000 employees. CEO Avishai Abrahami cited two drivers: a strengthening Israeli shekel making its Israel-based workforce more expensive in dollar terms, and a restructuring around AI-native roles including new titles like 'xEngineer.' The cuts follow a 27% single-day stock drop after Q1 earnings missed expectations, with shares down over 50% in 2026. Wix faces competitive pressure from vibe-coding platforms like Lovable and Bolt.new, and acquired Base44 for $80M as a response. The layoffs are part of a broader 2026 wave that has eliminated over 95,000 tech jobs. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/9KepnKD7v) ## Amazon kills Kirorank leaderboard after employees tokenmax their way to the top Amazon shut down Kirorank, an internal leaderboard tracking usage of its Kiro AI tool, after employees started spinning up AI agents to perform unnecessary tasks just to boost their scores. The compute costs became unsustainable. Meta ran into the same problem with its Claudeconomics leaderboard in April. The incidents highlight a core enterprise problem: encouraging AI adoption without incentivizing waste. Measuring actual business value from token consumption remains unsolved, and the pattern of Goodhart's Law playing out in real time — where the metric becomes the target — is now showing up at multiple major tech companies simultaneously. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=RiC9EzkdX&id=dEBv0DKiZ&id=OCLwYyMiQ) ## Atlassian publishes AI productivity numbers: 19% more PRs, 2–3 hours saved per week Atlassian analyzed 3,400 repositories across 2,500 customers to measure the impact of its Rovo Dev AI coding tool. Teams using it merged 19% more pull requests per month, with low-to-medium activity repos seeing 37–51% uplift. A separate survey of 6,200 Atlassian developers found 2–3 hours saved per week — equivalent to freeing one full-time developer per team of ten. The company is pushing engineering leaders to shift from tracking AI usage metrics toward measuring actual productivity outcomes across the full software lifecycle. Separately, DX research across 500+ companies found that 70% of developers reach peak AI savings within two quarters, but two-thirds fall back from those gains afterward. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=HiI0tKBvE&id=CBezc5zKO) --- ## Also notable - **Salesforce made zero engineering hires in FY2026, grew sales headcount 20%:** CEO Marc Benioff confirmed Salesforce hired no engineers or service agents in FY2026, attributing the gap to AI handling those functions, while simultaneously growing sales headcount by 20% to meet rising product demand. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/Xj1BFKSgz) - **Morgan Stanley doubles AI job loss forecast for European banks to 20% by 2030:** Morgan Stanley revised its estimate of AI-driven banking job losses from 10% to 20% — roughly 400,000 roles — by 2030, with concrete cuts already underway at ABN Amro, HSBC, UBS, and Société Générale. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/e0MkLFwSn) - **Stack Overflow AI agent adoption nearly doubled to 59%, but 63% still rarely run agents unsupervised:** A Stack Overflow pulse survey of 1,100 developers found agentic AI use at work jumped from 31% to 59% since 2025, with GitHub Copilot at 61% and Claude Code at 51% dominating coding agent usage, though full autonomy remains rare. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/F8Ug4OwKn) - **Remote hits $300M ARR with 85% of code AI-written, no new headcount added:** Amsterdam-based payroll startup Remote surpassed $300M ARR and turned cash-flow positive, crediting a 50% increase in revenue per employee to AI adoption across all departments, with engineering contributions up 60% year-over-year. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/VWdvQND7R) - **Entry-level developer hiring down 67% since 2022, creating a projected 2029 talent crisis:** Top employers now post 14 senior roles for every junior one, and the missing 2024–2026 junior cohort won't be felt until 2029 when they should have become affordable senior hires — a lagged structural problem for mid-stage companies unable to match Big Tech compensation. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JiWk9PorO&id=BRqdR9OFj) ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andrewma** · 4 upvotes > Google offloaded Flutter desktop to Canonical so it can focus entirely on mobile and AI. W! **@deepjoshi\_dev** · 0 upvotes > Kind of see that coming ages ago. **@andruhudz** · 0 upvotes > The expensive game started. 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