--- title: 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot description: GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster with less work. The tool is available to developers everywhere and can help speed up... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/8-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-github-copilot-y48viss-z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | daily.dev og:description: GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster with less work. The tool is available to developers everywhere and can help speed up... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/8-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-github-copilot-y48viss-z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y48viSS-Z.png og:image:alt: 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot **[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 6 min read · 92 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster with less work. The tool is available to developers everywhere and can help speed up development and increase developer productivity. It's available in Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and Neovim, a forked version of Vim with additional features, you can exit NeoVim. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@imsuvesh** · 4 upvotes > I have used this earlier during beta period for whole year, > IMO, this definitely improves productivity if you know what you are doing, but drastically reduces your problem solving ability. > > After few days you will start relying on copilot totally to suggest you some code and it will just reduce your ability to solve that problem if you would have written down that code yourself and debugged the issues. > > Github Copilot, is like a sweet candy which will give you the sweet pleasure in start but will definitely get you diabetes at later stage. > > You choose what you need, for me I removed it. **@ch\_dev** · 3 upvotes > My biggest concern is that, exactly as it's happening mostly with Stack-overflow, people just copy-paste and don't understand what they're doing. **@pavlicko** · 2 upvotes > having used it for several months, I can't imagine a non-developer having much success with it. you still have to know how best to write out your comments and function names. I find it actually HELPS me code better **@ksharma20** · 0 upvotes > It's helpful, but scary at the same time 😥 **@tugrulyildirim** · 0 upvotes > When AI is going to take our Jobs ? :) --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#nlp](https://daily.dev/tags/nlp), [#vim](https://daily.dev/tags/vim) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/8-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-github-copilot-y48viss-z) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-github-copilot-y48viss-z","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/8-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-github-copilot-y48viss-z"},"datePublished":"2022-09-14T16:06:20.595Z","dateModified":"2022-09-14T16:06:20.440Z","description":"GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster with less work. 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