# GitHub Copilot code review

14 Hacker News commenters recommended GitHub Copilot code review and 26 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for catching niche bugs and issues humans miss, with more useful findings than older diff-only linters. The most common caveat is false positives and noisy comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Finds niche issues humans miss (3 comments): "some of them are actual findings of issues that simply would have gone unaddressed previously" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158293)) "generally pretty good at finding niche issues that aren't as easily caught by humans" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317667)) "But I've found a bunch of bugs this way too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647364))
- Generally good, works well (4 comments): "Copilot code review is amazing. I use it all the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318682)) "copilot reviews on Github are surprisingly insightful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392370)) "works fine for me, much better than I expected" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318465))
- Better than linters or diff-only CI (2 comments): "I found it to be WAY better than our prior CI reviews that just looked at diff and had TONs of false positives." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720293)) "GH Copilot is definitely far better than just a linter." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770707))
- Simple optional feature, integrates well (2 comments): "Github Copilot review is such a simple - optional - ux, it makes sense as a feature." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135730)) "it does a great job, integrates very well with the PR comment system" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770668))

## What people warn about

- False positives and nit-picky comments (3 comments): "the vast majority of them are false positives" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642042)) "tends to miss actual bugs and report nonexistent bugs, making it worse than useless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143712)) "noticed this "low quality nit-picky" style of review comments as well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766114))
- Costs money, double billing for minutes (3 comments): "GitHub Copilot Code Review is four cents per review once you're outside of the credits included with your subscription." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315256)) "Double billing for minutes and tokens is intentional obfuscation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937913)) "Why would non-actions activity consume actions budget?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934419))
- Hard to verify, unreliable comments (2 comments): "it is extremely unreliable and hard to monitor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922259)) "it’s started writing really difficult to verify review comments" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301871))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cursor Bugbot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cursor-bugbot.md): 27 recommend
- [Greptile](https://hackerapproved.com/p/greptile.md): 9 recommend
- [Cubic AI code reviewer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cubic.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://github.com/features/copilot)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GitHub Copilot code review", https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-copilot-code-review/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).