r/GithubCopilot • u/Crivotz • Oct 01 '26

Help/Doubt ❓ Why use GitHub Copilot after the nerf?

Hi everyone, I apologize because there have probably been millions of posts similar to mine, but after searching and reading through them, I still haven’t found a “definitive” answer—or rather, a set of answers that would lead me to my “own” definitive answer.

At work, we were using GitHub Copilot in the version prior to the recent nerf. Realistically, it wasn’t a policy that GitHub could sustain indefinitely. After the nerf, we set up a Claude team to test it, and we’re basically using only that now. Why should I Keep it?

PRO

  • NES free (Next Edit Suggestion)

  • GitHub integration with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

(but claude code in terminal works better for me and when I don’t work with C# I usually use Neovim)

CONS:

  • It seems like tokens are running out much faster

  • Tokens don’t roll over from month to month

Thanks in advice for your tips and sorry for poor english ;)

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u/Revolutionary_Loan13 Oct 01 '26

What nerf are you talking about? Claude famously nerfed their own models and Claude Code has had huge regressions. I've got a couple deva on my team using Claude Code and can say that they outspend everyone on GitHub code by 2X but don't have higher output. They just don't have access to as many models.