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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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Helps Innovate
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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GitHub Copilot Reviews
Awolu S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
Coding Made Easier with GitHub Copilot
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
It standout feature is its ability to deeply scan across your project files, enabling not just code completion but also powerful code editing, intelligent bug detection suggestions, and even the capability to add new files, significantly enhancing the development workflow.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to scan and edit code, coupled with instant help via 'CTRL I', makes Copilot very convenient.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's fantastic, but continuous improvement is welcome.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're always debugging in your browser, Copilot's 'CTRL I' gives you instant AI control over your code, saving time and stress.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Saurabh M.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2025
Smart, helpful, but still room for improvement.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
GitHub Copilot is deeply integrated into Visual Studio Code and GitHub, offering real-time suggestions that feel natural and highly responsive. It’s trained on a wide variety of code from open-source repositories, giving it strong versatility and the ability to suggest useful code snippets quickly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is how seamlessly it assists during coding, offering real-time, context-aware code suggestions that save time and reduce repetitive work. It often feels like pair programming with an intelligent assistant.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It sometimes generates incorrect or outdated code, especially when dealing with newer libraries or less common use cases. It also lacks full understanding of large codebases across multiple files.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Try it out on smaller projects first to get comfortable. It’s great for increasing productivity, but always review the generated code carefully and use it as a helper, not a replacement for learning.
Pros
- Security Protects
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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 — it makes up things that don’t 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 — it’s a powerful tool. But even with its help, never stop learning how to code, because you’ll still need to recognize and correct any hallucinations it might generate.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Cons
- Less Transparent
