
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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95 Plan to Renew
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.
How much do users love GitHub Copilot?
Pros
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
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GitHub Copilot Reviews
Md F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2024
Programmers favorite assistant to boost in work.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
What really sets GitHub Copilot apart is its de颅ep understanding of coding context and its ability to ge颅nerate rele颅vant suggestions in real-time. It's a game-changer for develope颅rs like myself, and I can't imagine going back to coding without it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As a software engineer, I've been absolute颅ly amazed by the capabilities of GitHub Copilot. It's like颅 having a coding companion that can anticipate my next move and provide颅 suggestions that save me time颅 and effort. The way it suggests code颅 snippets, autocompletes line颅s, and even gene颅rates entire functions base颅d on my comments and existing code is truly impre颅ssive. It's significantly increased my de颅velopment spee颅d and accuracy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Copilot's suggestions aren't always perfe颅ct, and it's important to carefully review the code it generate颅s to avoid potential errors or inconsistencie颅s. While it's an incredibly powerful tool, it's not a re颅placement for a human deve颅loper's judgment and expe颅rtise.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're颅 a developer looking to e颅nhance your productivity and streamline your coding workflow, I highly re颅commend giving GitHub Copilot a try. It has become an e颅ssential part of my developme颅nt process, saving me time, re颅ducing errors, and helping me focus on the颅 bigger picture of software de颅sign.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2024
AI coding Assistant, innovate.
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features

Arghadeep D.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
An essential tool for all coders
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
Its ease of implementation, support, the recommendations for code completion and generation are some of the few points that make it distinguished from its peer products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect about Github Coplit is its completion/generation abilities. Such is its capability that, even when I am following a tutorial about a new tech-stack, it can automatically generate the exact same code as demonstrated by the teacher, using the same example, which really shows its machine learning prowess.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think Copilot can improve further by showing at least 2 different auto-completion/generation previews instead of just one. Sometimes while coding, I need to add comment lines to play around with copilot so that it gives me new suggestions ,which makes it a bit unproductive sometimes. Hence the suggestion.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Although, using Github Copilot is a good thing as it saves time and inproves productivity, but we still shouldn't rely 100% on AI. We should have clear knowledge of the code auto-completed/generated by copilot as it may otherwise waste a lot of time of ours later, when we would need to integrate the code in other areas / when we would need to add new features whilst keeping the old ones.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity