GitHub Copilot

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “try Zed with GitHub Copilot. I've been using it this week with better results than I ever had with Cursor”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Copilot in VSCode broke far more in my months of (ab)using it”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-03

• “Copilot was OK for my purposes, and the USD 10 per month fee was enough for my usage”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “i did get it working, and i can now use Deepseek V4 Flash with Copilot”

  MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “Github copilot for $10 used to be the best value since you get all the US AI labs model for cheap.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “VS-Code's Github Copilot actually had pretty good Jupyter integration, letting you refer to specific cells, and allowed the agent to run individual cells and read their output before writing subsequent cells”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “the GitHub copilot price increase blew right through the budget”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “I stay on GitHub Copilot business for the time being as a solo developer. I assume that Microsoft has less incentive than Antrophic to break the business agreement and use data for training”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “MiMo 2.5 Pro get stuck in thinking loops with GitHub Copilot”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “Github Copilot offered probably the best value and was IMO underappreciated for a long time; I've been an annual subscriber since day 1”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-23

• “Copilot was wildly underpriced before the recent changes so all of this fit in a normal $40 plan”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-14

• “I have Codex, Claude and GitHub Copilot enterprise accounts on top of Office 365”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-25

• “I could assign copilot to a substantial issue using Opus and have it handle 30 minutes of work with many subagents with iterative testing”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “the value add of developer experience benefits of Github Copilot's integration into Github itself (kick off agent work from your phone on the GitHub site), VS Code, and other tools is quite high”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “it seems very reasonable to me there. I just create an issue and assign it to Copilot and then hop into its session and sometimes redirect or give feedback after it reaches a stopping point and I've had the chance to pull it down and test it. I'm closing out 2-3 semi-complicated features a day on it in my off work hours right now for my personal projects”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “I use Github Copilot because it's what my job provides to me”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-04-01

• “implementing a full harness meant loosing a lot of the IDE integration features that come with the hand off to GitHub Copilot”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-09

• “it was unlikely (without significant effort) to be as good as Github Copilot chat, and it meant forfeiting all of the IDE integrations etc (like diff visualisation for the agents actions etc)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-09

• “Copilot on its own is dogshit and when using it the same way I would use Perplexity AI or ChatGPT, it is twice as much dogshit”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-10

• “I actually prefer using the "ask" function of github copilot through visual studio code over using the company provided microsoft copilot portal”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-05

• “GitHub Copilot Agent suffice for similar workflows with less setup”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-05

• “pretty much nothing outside of the regular GitHub Copilot plugins does autocomplete decently”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-09

• “I watched Cursor agents and GitHub Copilot lie to my face. They'd say "Done – file replaced" while the file stayed untouched.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-19

• “Copilot is not garbage, but rather the by far leader among these other options”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-08

• “I actually used to pay for GitHub Copilot but am also looking in the direction of just using the APIs of the various providers”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-07-23