GitHub Copilot: where it actually helps

A separate AI product across the editor and GitHub: review, navigation, and routine edits without conflating products.

I use it as an AI layer for navigation, code explanation, and routine edits without conflating it with GitHub itself.

What works in practice

• Use it for a first explanation of unfamiliar code.
• Check pull-request summaries against the actual diff.
• Routine edits still go through tests.
• Copilot remains a separate product even when it works inside GitHub.

Where the boundary is

Copilot is useful as a standalone AI tool, but it replaces neither GitHub as a platform nor result verification.