Trying GitHub Copilot coding agent

Somehow1 I got access to GitHub Education again, which includes access to GitHub Copilot Pro. While I was using Kilo Code with OpenRouter in the recent past, I wanted to try Copilot again since it doesn’t cost anything extra for me.

Usually when programming with AI agents locally on complex tasks, you reach a point where there’s no real progress and you need to guide the agent too much and burn through countless tokens (and credits). But now there’s this feature where you can task Copilot to create a pull request and guide it through comments. The difference, however, is that Copilot typically only commits and finishes the task once it has a successful result.

With the help of this new feature, I am currently on the mission to optimize the test coverage of GoBlog and refactor some parts. 300 included premium requests are plenty when choosing a model like GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.

Working with Copilot is more fun again since I don’t use it for work anymore. 😄

I’m not a real student again, but I subscribed to a cheap course at a real university, which includes a student ID and email inbox. ↩︎

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