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GitHub Copilot helps more than 1 million developers and over 20,000 businesses push what’s possible in software development. Based on powerful LLMs, including OpenAI’s GPT models, this AI pair programmer helps developers write code faster and with less work by drawing context from comments and code to suggest individual lines and whole functions instantly. All languages are supported, however the more common a language, the better represented it will be in the training data and the more robust suggestions will be.

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GitHub Copilot is powered by a combination of large language models (LLMs), including a customized version of OpenAI’s GPT that translates natural language to code and additional models from Microsoft and GitHub to further hone and improve upon results. Available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and the JetBrains suite of integrated development environments (IDEs), GitHub Copilot works alongside developers in their preferred editor, where they can either type as they go or write comments to get coding suggestions. As a result, developers spend less time creating boilerplate and repetitive code patterns, and more time on what matters: building great software. GitHub Copilot was developed with security, privacy, and responsibility in mind. GitHub Copilot for Business never retains customer code from prompts or suggestions. Only users who are on an individual license and choose to opt-in will be retained. Additionally, users can enable a mechanism that blocks suggestions that match public code, even if the likelihood of matches is low.

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GitHub Copilot Demo - Function completion by name

In this example, GitHub Copilot fetches the ticker symbols of the S&P 500. A user can type the function name get_sp500_tickers as a prompt to generate a complete implementation. Note, however, that code generated by GitHub Copilot is not always entirely correct. Here, the way it’s written, ev...

GitHub Copilot Demo - Converts comments to code

GitHub Copilot is as good at writing natural language as it is at writing code, so in fact it can complete your comments for you.It can complete an explanation, and then, line by line, allow the user to tab through the code that does what was prompted in English.

GitHub Copilot can take some of the drudgery out of writing unit tests. Here’s an implementation of a function that computes the Greatest Common Divisor, so let’s test it. To do so, a user can import the unit test package, and then start writing a class just by hitting the c key. From then on, it...

GitHub Copilot Demo - Adapt to your coding style

A common problem with code generation tools is that they try to impose an unfamiliar style on you, and the suggestions reflect the preferences of its creators, not your own. GitHub Copilot imitates the style of your own code. In the examples below, it follows the convention of putting an opening ...

GitHub Copilot Reviews (191)

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SUbhajit G.

Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/27/2025

"Best buddy for coding"

5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

It writes the test class more or less 70% accurate. It suggests the code more or less 75% correct. It reduces y coding time and help in suggesting optimum coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

It always suggests whenever I do not need also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pam W.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/18/2024

"CoPilot is a great pairing partner"

5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

The ability to complete syntax when writing code, to analyze error messages and almost 100 % give me a path forward, to explain and discuss architecture options, strategies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

The inability to analyze a code base in Visual Studio. I can use the edit function and analyze files but not the whole code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Areeb S.

Front End Engineer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/10/2024

"The Best Intelligent Coding Assistant"

5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

It helps to code programs much faster. Also it advices and assist in coding best prectices. It can quickly fix issues by providing a the correct piece of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

Sometimes the suggested piece of code when working on a fix turns out to be not to the point or already implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul S.

Full Stack Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/23/2024

"Best AI copilot for ease in writing complex codes."

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

Github Copilot is the fastest and very easy to implement copilot for our code editors. It generates our predicted code very efficiently and fastly. It is trained on many programming languages like Python, JS etc. It is compatible with many different code editors. It easily detects and fixes all the bugs and errors in our code. It keeps the track of our code from all of ours code files and auto completes our code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

Their customer support is very slow and are not reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub Copilot solving and how is that benefiting you?

Github Copilot has drastically decreased our project's delivery time, by providing fast auto code completion with great accuracy. It easily reads our previous written chats and codes to give us the best predicted solutions, which made it require less explanation to get our codes. It helped us reduce the errors and bugs in our codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dheeraj K.

Product Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/27/2024

"The fastest and easiest to use AI copilot for our programmings."

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

Github Copilot uses the most capable AI model to autocomplete and generate codes for our problems. It easily explains and fixes bugs in our codes. It is very efficient in understanding our previous chats and then generates an ideal solution for our problems. It can generate codes in allmost all programming languages. It has very simple dashboard to chat and interect with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

Its price is a bit expensive for small business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub Copilot solving and how is that benefiting you?

Github Copilot has incresed our team's efficiency and accuracy while writing codes, by providing great solutions and auto generated codes for our softwares. It provides the predicted error free codes with good accuracy. It has solutions of allmost all the problems related to programming and networking, which helped us reduce errors in our softwares from development to deployment. Their customer support is also fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/22/2024

"A Developer buddy for the developers"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

It's really helpful in development, this AI tool work really well for us to resolve our development issues

Code generation on small prompt is too best feature. Just say /test and it will generate test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

Some cases it's only gives summary instead of solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub Copilot solving and how is that benefiting you?

This resolve many problems, in one of my project I used to understand C++ code in which I was not expertise and then same convert it in Java . In Java also I am convert code into one version to another like java 7 to java 8 stream APIs. You can generate junit test cases, postman scripts, SQL queries, . Also useful to grammar check of your email content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arkadiusz B.

Senior Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2024

"Big potential, not that great at the moment"

3.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

Helps with solving repetable issues, such as adding xml docs, unit tests and things which will repeat quite often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

Not as good as it could be, it not use enough of user input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/18/2024

"The best code autocomplete tool ever!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot integrates with my coding routine perfectly. It has boosted my productivity by 10X at least. The tool is intuitive and you can instruct it with human language. The fact that it provides multiple responses for autocompletion is amazing. The language support that it offers is also phenomenal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

If I have to nitpick, the tool does not always provide accurate results, which is understandable as it uses LLM in the background for code generation and completion. This I hope gets better thought time. According to me, GitHub Copilot is meant for smaller tasks rather than revamping or writing an entire code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogesh G.

Software Engineer (Android)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/28/2024

"AI in Code (Ultimate Plugin)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

Best part is its integration in Android Studio. It automatically reads my comments and basically generate the code which may fit with my project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

It sometimes does not understand chats which results in repeated or say, it may require sequential prompts to get the desired result.

The other issue is that it does not show history of fresh window is opened in Android Studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub Copilot solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its solving 3 problems for me:

1. Autocomplete the code which reduces my total development time.

2. Unit Test generation, in Android we specifically need to write testable code.

3. Code Opimisation, i basically give prompts by selecting the code file and ask what can i improve in the code to increase its performance and then work on that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdelrahman A.

Data Analyst

Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/11/2024

"GitHub Copilot has changed the way I write code."

4/5

What do you like best about GitHub Copilot?

It is especially useful for writing repetitive or complex code fragments, as it can provide intelligent suggestions and complete parts of the code efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot has limitations and may not always correctly understand the context or intentions being given to it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub Copilot solving and how is that benefiting you?

Github copilot gives us the ability to speed up the development process and reduce the repetitive workload is invaluable. In addition, having access to a wide range of code suggestions and examples can help improve my programming skills and broaden my knowledge of different technologies and coding practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.