I tested Bing AI and GitHub Copilot on the same job. Only one earned a permanent spot.

One thing mattered: could I trust the output without redoing it? My call: keep Bing AI for the work it's built for, and GitHub Copilot for the rest. They aren't rivals, they're different tools, and treating them like the same purchase is how people end up paying for both and using neither.

Where Bing AI shines: it free and wired straight into search. It also cites its sources inline instead of guessing.

Where GitHub Copilot shines: it autocompletes whole lines from your repo's context. It also ships an agent mode with deep GitHub integration.

The catch: it drops the thread faster than you'd like. And GitHub Copilot? suggestions occasionally guess the wrong intent.

One honest note: the answer I could verify against a source is where Bing AI and GitHub Copilot both still want a human in the loop. I stopped expecting either to be fire-and-forget.