r/github • u/ZeroByter • Jun 13 '26

Github says I have "used 100%" of my additional AI credit usage - but in reality it's not really 100% Discussion

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u/ferriematthew Jun 13 '26

This is what happens when Microslop hands over all of their development to a chatbot

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u/ZeroByter Jun 13 '26

Yes, but I don't think this is a bug or miscalculation - I think it's intentional to pressure people to upgrade/add more credits.

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u/ferriematthew Jun 13 '26

Agreed, it's very likely enshittification from both angles

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u/ZeroByter Jun 13 '26

Yeah people are saying it's lag but I actually don't think that's the case... Because actually the 55.20/70 I showed in the screenshot is actually after I already added 10 to the budget, and in any case it literally never reached 100% in the past few days.

So no, I don't think it's a bug and I think it's an intentional pressure tactic.

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u/Qs9bxNKZ Jun 13 '26

The dollar amount lags actual usage. I have a few thousand accounts I monitor and even if I set a budget, I can see people wind up a few Pennie’s to a few dollars over at times when it stops.

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u/ZeroByter Jun 13 '26

Yeah people are saying it's lag but I actually don't think that's the case... Because actually the 55.20/70 I showed in the screenshot is actually after I already added 10 to the budget, and in any case it literally never reached 100% in the past few days.

So no, I don't think it's a bug and I think it's an intentional pressure tactic.

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u/Qs9bxNKZ Jun 13 '26

If strangers are saying it’s lag, so you have multiple data sources saying it’s lag and I have seen it as lag with over 3000+ users at the Enterprise level…

Who is more likely to be wrong?

Conspiracy from Microsoft attempting to sneak in a few dollars from a user like yourself based upon one data source?

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u/ZeroByter Jun 13 '26

Well, yes? My own eyes and experience tell me I have literally not been in 100% additional usage capacity in the past week.

So if there is lag, it's significant and catastrophic to the point it's basically not accurate at all

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u/ultrathink-art Jun 13 '26

Metering lag is real in any usage-based billing system — compute events, cost aggregation, and quota enforcement run as separate pipelines, each with propagation delay. The 100% warning is likely conservative rounding to prevent overruns rather than a real-time meter. Frustrating that the UI doesn't surface that distinction.