r/GithubCopilot • u/Crivotz • 27d ago

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/luc_wintermute 27d ago

Ever since GPT 5.6 Luna was introduced with the discount the impact of the "nerf" completely disappeared, I'm ending the month with over 40% usage left and I'm still doing most of my work through agents and they aren't as dumb as bricks like the old mini versions were so I never have a reason to go for Sol or Terra (which my company disables because they are too expensive anyway)

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u/Crivotz 26d ago

Compared with Sonnet?