GitHub Copilot
Your AI pair programmer, built into every IDE.
About GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is the leading AI coding assistant, integrated directly into VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and GitHub.com. Powered by OpenAI Codex and GPT-4o, it provides line-by-line code completions, multi-line suggestions, docstring generation, and natural language to code translation. Copilot Chat adds conversational debugging and code explanation. Copilot Workspace previews an agentic end-to-end coding experience. Used by over 1.8 million developers.
Community Reviews
3 reviews • 4.3 average
As a frontend developer, Copilot is particularly brilliant for React components, CSS, and TypeScript types. It seems to have internalized every design pattern imaginable. I use it alongside Copilot Chat for debugging and the combination is powerful. I've tried Cursor and it offers deeper codebase context, but Copilot's lighter integration means less friction in my existing VS Code workflow.
Copilot's inline completion is genuinely impressive and I'd have a hard time coding without it now. The Chat feature is helpful but trails behind Claude and GPT-4o for complex reasoning about my codebase. I'd love context that spans my full repository rather than just open files. The recent GPT-4o model upgrade noticeably improved suggestion quality. Worth every penny for the autocomplete alone.
GitHub Copilot has genuinely changed how I code. For boilerplate, test writing, and repetitive patterns, it completes entire functions before I finish the first line. The Copilot Chat integration in VS Code is excellent for explaining legacy code I've inherited. The ROI is obvious — I estimate I'm 30-40% faster on common tasks. At $10/month, it's the best value dev tool subscription I have.