HACKER Q&A
📣 fabev

Why does it look like everyone is abandoning GitHub Copilot?


GitHub Copilot is a powerful tool in my opinion. Most people I know use Cursor, Codex or Claude Code instead of Copilot, since Copilot is mainly an inline completion tool. But doesn’t the "new" agent mode do the same things other coding agents can do? Yes, it has a much smaller context window, but it still feels very good to me. For the current subscriptions you also get far more than almost anywhere else: for 10 dollars a month you can send around 100 Claude Opus messages, without a limit on how long they run (because of the 300 premium request credits). Right now Claude Code and other agents are hyped, but what about GitHub Copilot? do you all still use it?


  👤 aurareturn Accepted Answer ✓
I still use it as my main tool. I find it great for an existing code base because of the VS code integration by default. I can see how AI changes code I'm familiar. Plus, I think it's a great value. $10 for so much usage and access to Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4.