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GitHub Copilot

Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
9.0 /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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

81 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.

+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?

0% Negative
2% Neutral
98% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

GitHub Copilot Reviews

Tanis B.

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

Submitted Apr 2024

Suggests improvements to the code.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

Its notable difference is that it allows developers to collaborate in real time, which makes it easy to work on projects with others, making it very easy to use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Your ability to provide smart, relevant code suggestions while writing is very useful to me as it helps me speed up the encoding process and reduce errors.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Your privacy and security as an artificial intelligence-based tool do not satisfy me much, especially if I am working on sensitive or confidential projects.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend for your ease of getting acquainted with its operation, available functions and how to integrate it into your development workflow.

Pros

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

William P.

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

Submitted Apr 2024

Write code faster and more efficiently

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

This tool is strongly integrated with Github, allowing developers to easily switch between coding and collaborating on their projects. Integrating other products with GitHub can be more difficult for developers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Multiple programming language support is something I love because it allows me to use the tool in a wide range of projects and contexts.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I do not like it requires a constant Internet connection to operate, which can result in inconvenience in environments with limited or unstable connectivity.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend it because it is an additional tool that can speed up the encoding process for the best results.

Pros

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

Caled Daniel P.

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

Submitted Apr 2024

Custom code suggestions.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

It stands out because it can generate everything from functions to unit tests, which saves time and improves developer productivity. Plus, its deep integration into Visual Studio Code

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

An impressive feature of GitHub Copilot is that it understands the context of the code and can offer relevant suggestions based on the programming language, libraries used, and design patterns.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Something negative is the variability of the Generated Code, it does not always produce perfect solutions. Sometimes the generated code can be inefficient.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend it because it supports all the languages, libraries, and frameworks used in the public GitHub repositories.

Pros

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

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