
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot suggests code completions as developers type and turns natural language prompts into coding suggestions based on the project's context and style conventions. GitHub Copilot keeps track of your work, suggests descriptions, and helps reviewers reason about your changes. Use GitHub Copilot to code faster, drive impact, and focus on doing what matters most: building great software.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
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83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
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GitHub Copilot Reviews
Mateus B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2025
mandatory, gave me more hands
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
It can be integrated into all the IDEs already used by our development teams, across all the programming languages we work with.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to add files as context for the prompts.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it hallucinates 鈥 it makes up things that don鈥檛 actually exist but seem contextually plausible, which requires the user to have good judgment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start using it as soon as possible 鈥 it鈥檚 a powerful tool. But even with its help, never stop learning how to code, because you鈥檒l still need to recognize and correct any hallucinations it might generate.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Cons
- Less Transparent
Rick A.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2025
Copilot helps a lot during our development process
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
GitHub Copilot offers smart code suggestions with deep GitHub integration. It works seamlessly in popular IDEs like VS Code
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The support for debugging.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not anything that comes to mind
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just try it out and see for your self. It delivers a lot of value for our startup and saves time that we can spent anywhere else
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing

Prince P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2025
An Invaluable Coding Companion That Boosts Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
Deep Integration with GitHub and Visual Studio Code: Since it鈥檚 built by GitHub (in partnership with OpenAI), Copilot integrates seamlessly into the GitHub ecosystem and VS Code, making it super convenient for developers already using those tools. Context-Aware Suggestions: Copilot offers suggestions based not only on the current line but the surrounding code and even comments. It can autocomplete entire functions or generate boilerplate code intelligently
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of GitHub Copilot is its ability to autocomplete entire code blocks based on just a few comments or function names. It feels like pair programming with an experienced developer who anticipates what I鈥檓 trying to build. This not only speeds up my workflow but also helps me focus more on logic and architecture rather than boilerplate code.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While GitHub Copilot is incredibly helpful, one thing I鈥檇 say could be improved is its occasional tendency to suggest outdated or overly generic code. It's not a big issue, especially if you already know what you're doing, but beginners might want to double-check some suggestions. That said, it鈥檚 constantly improving, and even with that small drawback, it still saves a lot of time overall.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you鈥檙e considering GitHub Copilot, I highly recommend giving it a try鈥攅specially if you write code frequently. It鈥檚 like having an assistant that understands your workflow. Whether you're working on Python, JavaScript, or even documentation, Copilot offers suggestions that save time and spark new ideas.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing