Github Copilot and Claude code are not exactly competitors.
Github Copilot is autocomplete, highly useful if you use VS Code, but if you are using e.g. Jetbrains then you have other options. Copilot comes with a bunch of other stuff that I rarely use.
Claude code is project-wide editing, from the CLI.
They complement each other well.
As far as I'm concerned the utility of the AI-focused editors has been diminished by the existence of Claude code, though not entirely made redundant.
This isn't correct. GitHub Copilot now totally competes with Claude Code. You can have it create an entire app for you in "Agent" mode if you're feeling brave. In fact, seeing as Copilot is built directly into Visual Studio when you download it, I guess they have a one-up.
Copilot isn't locked to a specific LLM, though. You can select the model from a panel, but I don't think you can plug in your own right now, and the ones you can select might not be SOTA because of that.
I didn't mean it doesn't attempt to compete, I mean it doesn't actually compete. Claude code for agents, Copilot for autocomplete (depending on your editor/IDE).
For single-line autocomplete, which is how I use it, pretty much anything will do the job. I use Copilot only because it integrates well with VS Code. I find the other features to be inferior.
I use Copilot for the same reason (it's already there in Visual Studio). But I think we're talking about different things -- did you try Agent mode in Copilot? (the naming of all these things is getting confusing)
Sonnet 4 in copilot agent mode has been doing great work for me lately. Especially once you realise that at least 50% of the work is done before you get to copilot, as architectural and product specs and implementations plans.
Ehhh... I wouldn't use it for anything important right now. It often screws up by truncating code files then asking itself "where did all those functions go?" and having to rewrite them from scratch.
When it works, it's great though. I've used it to vibe-code some nice little desktop apps to automate things I needed and it produced way more polished UI than I would have spent the time doing, and the code is pretty much how I would have written it myself. I just set it going and go do some other task for 10 mins and come back to see what changes it made.
Opencode https://github.com/sst/opencode provides a CC like interface for copilot. It's a slightly worse tool, but since copilot with Claude 4 is super cheap, I ended up preferring it over CC. Almost no limits, cheaper, you can use all the Copilot models, GH is not training on your data.
Github Copilot is autocomplete, highly useful if you use VS Code, but if you are using e.g. Jetbrains then you have other options. Copilot comes with a bunch of other stuff that I rarely use.
Claude code is project-wide editing, from the CLI.
They complement each other well.
As far as I'm concerned the utility of the AI-focused editors has been diminished by the existence of Claude code, though not entirely made redundant.