31 engineers on Hacker News describe using GitHub Copilot first-hand: 12 endorse it, 2 regret it, 7 are mixed.
“Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused. It is the worst waste of tokens there is.”
regret · production · Roark66 · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work I've been using about $500 worth of copilot credits (mostly on Anthropic's opus model) to do work that would previously require a team for a year”
endorse · production · Roark66 · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GH Copilot since early days. Plus my team.”
endorse · production · hansmayer · 2026-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bet my Copilot would score higher on O-LIFE... most notably something in the back of my mind bothers me when Copilot (GPT-5 based) says things like 'I am happy that you said...'”
mixed · personal · PaulHoule · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly an annoyance more than a help that I eventually disabled altogether”
regret · personal · 1 yr · tracker1 · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vs code copilot pro for a few months and never really had any issue”
endorse · personal · haritha-j · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Copilot I'm more involved, which feels less 'magical' and takes me more time, but generally does not end in misery.”
mixed · personal · vanviegen · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using VSCode / CoPilot with Opus 4.5 and it has been working the best of any of the system I have tried. Very happy with it so far.”
endorse · personal · djinnrutger · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use GitHub Copilot back in 2022 and it was more productive than my brief tests of agents.”
endorse · production · 59nadir · 2025-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am blown away. I think this easily makes me 2x productive when doing implementation work.”
endorse · production · throwaway_36924 · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has some magic moments, and it can be great for boilerplate. But then it introduces subtle bugs”
mixed · production · leoedin · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Copilot is quite helpful and automates writing a bunch of the tedious steps in data wrangling”
endorse · production · bglazer · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's replaced all our external spending on corporate designs, it's not on par with what you'd see on top of the line communication, but it's good enough to send out to our investors.”
endorse · production · devjab · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GitHub Copilot since it was in early preview... the completions I get from Copilot don't have that much value”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · GeneralMaximus · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this for months and it's been performing extremely well.”
endorse · personal · 19h · 2023-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using GitHub copilot for several months now... I wish copilot gets chatgpt as the core soon”
mixed · personal · senthilnayagam · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GitHub copilot for six months now. It definitely produces a lot of code that looks right, but isn't.”
mixed · production · 0.5 yr · eloff · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Between ChatGPT and Copilot my workflow today is different in a way I couldn't have begun to contemplate just a few weeks ago.”
endorse · personal · adriand · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it definitely helps with boring parts... I paid GitHub $100 already and don't regret it.”
mixed · personal · vbezhenar · 2022-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it only for a few weeks but I'm already so hooked up that I prefer to take a break when the service is down”
endorse · personal · cyco130 · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it saves me 20 seconds typing... Yes, it does, it's quite good. ... the suggestions that do make sense, make you regret not having it”
endorse · personal · wokwokwok · 2021-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we have both Anthropic and Copilot subscriptions”
neutral · production · brabel · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the $100 github copilot tier but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat.”
neutral · personal · grep_name · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use Github Copilot in T3 Code via ACP”
neutral · production · peepee1982 · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My Codex and Claude Code bots (and Copilot at work) run on it”
neutral · production · sybhn · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sonnet 5 under a Copilot harness refactor my scripts and make them ergonomic and beautiful.”
neutral · production · mika314 · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Copilot, Cursor, then CC for a little more than a year now. I have written code with teams using these tools”
neutral · production · 1 yr · dnw · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“How I typically have been using Copilot is as a faster autocomplete that I read and tweak before moving on.”
neutral · personal · scott_w · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“windsurf (which we moved to from copilot)”
neutral · production · gcbirzan · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also lost access to Copilot when we switched to Cursor so I can't check at the moment.”
neutral · production · jmisavage · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude and openai in copilot”
neutral · personal · h_tbob · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?