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GitHub Copilot

Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10
Category
GitHub Copilot
8.6 /10

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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GitHub Copilot Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

94 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 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?

2% Negative
2% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

GitHub Copilot Reviews

Alenandro S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Helps in writing code.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

As you write code, it delivers insights in real time, you can greatly speed up development and reduce error rates. Copilot is helpful for developers working on various technologies because it supports a large variety of programming languages.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Like GitHub, Copilot can understand comments and natural language descriptions to produce relevant code. This gives developers a more organic way to communicate their goals.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While there is a free trial available for GitHub Copilot, developers and teams may need to pay extra for a membership to GitHub Copilot Pro in order to use the service in the long run.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I suggest it because it uses much of the source code that is available on GitHub, you can continually learn from it and hone your skills to write valuable, high-quality code.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Yash P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Powerful code generation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

Integration with GitHub: GitHub Copilot is tightly integrated with GitHub, the world's largest platform for hosting and collaborating on software projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Machine Learning Models: Copilot's code generation capabilities are powered by advanced machine learning models trained on a diverse range of codebases.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No, I think it's well good enough.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Explore and Experiment: Take the time to explore GitHub Copilot's capabilities thoroughly. Experiment with different programming languages, frameworks, and coding scenarios to understand how Copilot can assist you in your development workflow.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Vivek C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Github Copilot: Get Awesome AI based suggestions

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

It stands out with its competitors in terms of its deep integration with Github, one of the most used open-source platform used by developers across the world and also its advanced code completion capabilities and code suggestions.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of the product is that it speeds up the coding process of users by providing apt, accurate and relevant code suggestions as required by users.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes developers have to manually review and refine the code provided by Github Copilot due to its overly complex or non-optimized responses, this point should be improved by the team in the future.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is good to help yourselves with the code suggestions Github Copilot provides but reviewing and testing the generated code to make sure it satisfies your project requirements and generates the desired output is also very important. So in short take it as a helpful tool that would help you in enhancing your productivity,

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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