GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
Shares rank 35 of 41 coding agents by recommenders
Recommended for an agent that runs code, reads the errors and keeps going, plus fast autocomplete. Critics say suggestions are hit or miss and the integration is buggy.
Recommended for an agent that runs code, reads the errors and keeps going, plus fast autocomplete. Critics say suggestions are hit or miss and the integration is buggy.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 53%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Real productivity gain on coding
“It's much, much faster and easier than starting from scratch.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?” “So the productivity gain is very real.”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like” Multitask UI, click into live diffs
“I can catch a lot of bad stuff mid-flight because I can actually multitask my UI and click into diffs”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “Building a TUI is easy now” “I can actually multitask my UI and click into diffs as files are edited in real time”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “Building a TUI is easy now”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Buggy Visual Studio integration, diffing breaks
“Copilot for Visual Studio is just bad. And the diffing feature always breaks.”
Comment from 2 Jun 2026 in “Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold” “the abortion that is Copilot integration in Visual Studio”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding” Hit-or-miss suggestions, oversized inserts
“the remaining 95% is just cases of it trying to insert 20+ lines whenever I make a simple typo”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades” “so hit or miss that frequently it's not worth using”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash”
Other coding agents people recommend
The four most recommended other coding agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 571 | 993 | 37% | 12 | 1 yr46 owners | — |
| oh-my-pi | 104 | 28 | 79% | 9 | 2 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Grok Build CLI | 66 | 114 | 37% | 6 | — | — |
| DeepSeek Harness | 63 | 28 | 69% | 4 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| GitHub Copilot in Visual StudioThis page | 8 | 7 | 53% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
All 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I have had some good experience with AI tools doing code review, like CoPilot on Visual Studio.”
“It feels like I've been enjoying an ~unpatched exploit while everyone else wallows in the proverbial mud.”
“finds stuff in code by grepping around instead of using the Roslyn-driven code symbol and semantic database”
“It's much, much faster and easier than starting from scratch.”
“Copilot for Visual Studio is just bad. And the diffing feature always breaks.”
“suspiciously cheap Opus quotas there”
“So the productivity gain is very real.”
“A big advantage of prepaying for the API tokens is that I can look at everything copilot is doing in my usage logs.”
“I really hate Microsoft's naming conventions”
“this is kind of insulting to a professional”
“I can catch a lot of bad stuff mid-flight because I can actually multitask my UI and click into diffs”
“I can actually multitask my UI and click into diffs as files are edited in real time”
“It is useful for me to speed some typing up using the auto-complete.”
“the abortion that is Copilot integration in Visual Studio”
“Copilot is a dumpster fire and I can understand why you're down on agents from that experience.”
“I like the fact that runs a comment and then can read the output back and then automatically continues based on the error message”
“so hit or miss that frequently it's not worth using”
“the remaining 95% is just cases of it trying to insert 20+ lines whenever I make a simple typo”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.