Is GitHub Copilot Pro Worth It?

If you had asked me a year whether I thought that AI generated code was decent enough for production, I would have probably said no. The hallucinations were too frequent and (usually) the code was not very well optimized. But I knew that it was only a matter of time before the models caught up.

Well how things have changed in the span of a year. Just recently I accidentally ‘re-enabled’ my VS Code GitHub Copilot extension and didn’t think anything of it. I clicked on the icon, it asked me to login to my GitHub account, and I said why not.

And for the next couple of hours, I found myself staring at code completions that were better..and better…and better. To the point where on a long coding session day for work, I found myself hitting ‘tab’ more than writing actual code.

And after burning through my 2000 free code completions in the span of a few hours, I decided to take out the old credit card and to make it official.

Because at this point, I think it’s 100% worth the monthly cost. In this guide, I’ll break down exactly why, in case you’ve been contemplating giving more chatbots your money.

GitHub Copilot Code Completions: How Well Do They Work?

GitHub Copilot has a few components that make it tick. But for me personally, code…