Is GitHub Copilot Worth It? Who It Pays Off For (and Who Can Skip It)

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<h1> GitHub Copilot Has a New App. Here's What Changed for My Daily Workflow. </h1> <p>GitHub launched a desktop-native Copilot app in technical preview this week. The key

<p>Your IDE autocompletes a function signature in 200 milliseconds. You hit "Accept" without thinking. Three months later, you're staring at that same function during a production

<p>If you’re a student or just learning to code, please don’t start your dev journey by burning money on premium tools.</p> <p>You don’t need to pay for every shiny “Pro” button

<p>The receipt landed in my GitHub inbox on a Monday morning. </p> <p>Subject: important changes to your Copilot plan. </p> <p>Body: starting June 1, every Copilot subscription

<p>I have been a freelance frontend developer for a while now.</p> <p>I use GitHub Copilot and Cursor every day. AI coding tools that are supposed to make me faster.</p> <p>And

<p>Most GitHub Copilot setups are too polite to be useful.</p> <p>By default, Copilot tries to agree, avoid criticism, and keep answers "safe".<br /> That sounds good, but in

<ul> <li><p>Pro costs ~0.44 USD per Opus message; Max 5x costs the same per message but prevents hitting rate limits sooner.</p></li> <li><p>Max 20x cuts per-message cost in half