
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
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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Pros
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
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GitHub Copilot Reviews
Brendon W.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2025
GitHub Copilot: A Game-Changer for Code Completion
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
GitHub Copilot stands out with its deep integration into GitHub and VS Code, offering highly context-aware code suggestions powered by OpenAI Codex. Its ability to support multiple languages and streamline development workflows makes it a strong choice, though competitors are catching up in areas like bug detection and refactoring.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its AI-driven code completion significantly speeds up development by providing intelligent, context-aware suggestions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It lacks robust bug detection and refactoring capabilities, sometimes generating flawed code without identifying issues.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
GitHub Copilot is excellent for speeding up coding tasks, but users should review its suggestions carefully, especially for complex logic, security, and debugging needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Fair

Bob K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Auto Completion PowerHouse for Code!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
It's ability to generate boiler plate code for iteration by the programmer (in cases when programmers feel that auto-completion may restrict their creativity).
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I really like auto-complete feature. When discussing spitting out repetitive types, for instance, the interfaces and types are predicted as exactly as the should be with amazingly less key strokes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike the fact that I cannot rely on my personal creativity so much because I have put so much trust in Github-Copilot. It makes me become a lazy programmer and I dislike this fact.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please use the auto-completion for only the sake of time saving and not as your main idea developer. Rarely allow AI to create code for you.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2025
Easy to Use. Great service
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Caring
- Efficient Service