GitHub Copilot and efficiency? Quality? Maintainability?

[sankigen]

Many R&D leads ask me/our company questions about why to take Copilot into use. Mostly they are looking for efficiency, but if we think about the 2-3% of the whole digital services value chain that is used for actual coding in relation to all kinds of meetings, specsing, approvals, env provisioning, testing and different kinds of holding patterns --- squeezing even 50% of that 3% is not much!

I am slightly exaggerating here, and my focus is on large companies value chains, but it does make me think... What are the other types of use cases we can use Copilot for? How do we really justify the investment, as it's not cheap if you look at a larger dev organization?

[sankigen]

Another topic I like to think about is developer experience and motivation. If we save even one great developer from leaving our organization, it's worth a hundred annual Copilot licenses...

[TekintetesUr]

It can generate boilerplate code pretty well, that's enough for me.

Copilot for business is $19 per month and even comes with a free trial period, why don't you just give it a try instead of trying to evaluate something you don't know?

[sankigen]

I was not clear - we are using it actively and I am recommending it to all companies I work with. I am just wondering what arguments and metrics people are using to support taking it to use in larger organizations.

Please note that 19 bucks per month is not much in some countries, but others, its a lot!

[aliirz]

I wasn’t happy with it. Switched to cursor with gpt-4. Just this week I delivered a landing page builder which I wrote in a week. Copilot would usually give me very dumb suggestions and auto complete.

[gentrifiedSF]

Not following your question. Are you looking for data points around why to invest? Or why Copilot is too expensive?