--- title: "GitHub Copilot — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # GitHub Copilot (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. GitHub Copilot, GitHub/Microsoft's coding assistant and agent (agent mode, coding agent, and CLI); one of the products affected by Plugin4Shell in Sep 2026. First seen on Hacker News · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0.6 / 100 · +0.6 in 1 day · 0 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 18.3 on Sep 21, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Official site:** [github.com](https://github.com) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 23 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 122 - **Share of voice:** 0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Reddit | posts | 4 | 2 | 1.7× | no | 100% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 3 | 2 | 1.3× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Codex usage vs Claude](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wre9dq/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 27 · score 32 · 30 comments 2. [Open Source AI Week 2026 \| Open Weight Debate Night](https://luma.com/592fcwx2) — Luma (SF AI events) (Open Source AI Week) · score 38 3. [The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841103) — Hacker News (cacm.acm.org) · Sep 25 · score 7 · 10 comments 4. [The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841103) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (cacm.acm.org) · Sep 25 · score 7 · 10 comments 5. [🆕 Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now generally available in @code with GitHub Copilot! Built for everyday coding tasks, it matched Sonnet 5 in early testing while using fewer steps, tokens, and tool calls. ⚡️…](https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev/post/3mwlygpw7ss2e) — Bluesky (github.blog) · Sep 28 · score 8 · 0 comments 6. [dondonondon/HTML-To-Delphi-FMX: AI agent skills for converting HTML/CSS UI designs into native Delphi FireMonkey \(FMX\) interfaces. Supports Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding agents.](https://github.com/dondonondon/HTML-To-Delphi-FMX) — GitHub (dondonondon) · Sep 26 · score 6 7. [The promise of AI in software development is immense: faster coding, fewer bugs, intelligent...#githubcopilot #ai #developertools #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-98a19410-4fb18efbbedb0001) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 0 comments 8. [Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot](https://lobste.rs/s/2f2rrp/migrating_github_copilot_runtime_rust) — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 0 comments 9. [Thinking of cancelling Cursor Pro and switch - but which one ?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1wpg5gt/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Sep 24 · score 0 · 30 comments 10. [Copilot CLI can keep reading after an SSH reconnect while every write is denied. Stop autopilot, reset worktree approvals, restart safely, and add a circuit breaker. Full runbook: https://codereportg…](https://mastodon.social/@adityahalderdev/117317878251529043) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 1 comment 11. [Well, look at that: nothing saves you from a logic bug! Not even if the code is in Rust and an AI writes it! GitHub recently published an interesting post with data from porting the Copilot runtime f…](https://infosec.exchange/@fpl/117342571078808950) — Mastodon (fediverse) (infosec.exchange) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 1 comment 12. [RepoRadar is now a GitHub Copilot plugin for VS Code. It answers one question. Given this repository, which recent arXiv papers could you actually act on? Not papers about your topic. Papers with a t…](https://hachyderm.io/@raimondas/117339753354024778) — Mastodon (fediverse) (hachyderm.io) · Sep 26 · score 3 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 118 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 62% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 22% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 22% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 11% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 10% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 6.8% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Related to:** [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (17 stories), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md) (4 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 13.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 18.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 4.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 15.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 13.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 5.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 10.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 10.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open GitHub Copilot in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=github_copilot) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)