GitHub Copilot Pros and Cons

It gives amazing suggestions and auto-fills suggestions based on your code's context and your coding style. It's easily implementable to your coding IDE if you're using VS Code as it's already integrated into it as a plugin. It's now a daily part of my coding life! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their free limit is very low, would be nice to increase it as it helps a lot of people including students! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have been using this for the past year, and let me admit. It's one of the best copilot i've been using so far.

It's just like chatGPT but more easy to use and can be accessed on the IDE by hitting the shortkey.

One of its main strength is the way it can comprehend an algorithm and implement it with due of the respect of the previous syntaxs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The model is not trained enough to comprehend a somewhat difficult question

- Sometimes it ignored the prompt that's given

- Hallucination sorta happen. E.g, it calls for a function of a module that doesn't exist Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to use. It offers a lot of feature along the whole development life cycle.

It has everything a developer needs to boost their productivity.

It not only offers code generation but help around CLI commands and direct access to Github API which is very convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit slow and sometimes gets stuck.

The session for Github access expires very fast.

Sometimes, files will not be properly saved due to copilot interference which is I think a bug currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the only AI integrated into my IDE and work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't integrate it into no code or no IDE solutions and general purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It excels in providing code snippets, which save a lot time when automation repetitive tests or when dealing with a complex logic. Huge advantage it gave us during migration from Cypress to Playwright framework. Chat with Copilot inside VS code studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It happens Copilot provides suggestions not relevant to code at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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