A developer shares practical lessons from a month of working with GitHub Copilot on a personal project. Key findings: Copilot works best with small, well-scoped tasks rather than large end-to-end requests; context window limitations cause it to forget earlier instructions or fixate on unwanted patterns; terminal access and
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Copilot is very eagerContext mattersAccessing the terminal is an unnecessary painModels are sodaAI is like an unreliable teleportation deviceUnit tests come with limited warrantyDesign documents are yet another thing that require maintenanceConclusionSort: