AI Reddit — 2026-05-16#

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GitHub Copilot’s sudden transition to usage-based billing has resulted in an effective 4x price hike for some power users, triggering a massive wave of cancellations as developers abandon the platform for tools like Cursor or Codex. Amidst the corporate chaos, an open-source community fork called Zoo Code has quickly emerged to replace the beloved but dying Roo Code extension. On the security frontier, elite researchers just used Anthropic’s Mythos AI to completely bypass Apple’s multi-billion dollar M5 memory integrity enforcement in just five days, proving that frontier models are fundamentally altering the timeline of vulnerability research.