Copilot was super helpful for changing some locals to lazy_static!:
let integer_re = Regex::new(...) // old
static ref INTEGER_RE = Regex::new(...) // new
Unfortunately, it added a $ to the end of my first regex! It saved me a ton of keystrokes, but needed careful checking.
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Copilot doesn't offer a way of disabling completion inside comments. People have discovered a comical workaround: swearing in the comment!
I'm still figuring out where Copilot fits in my workflow, and I find it works really well *when I know exactly what code I want*.
When I have e.g. two lines in mind, I can see if it will write them (saving me the typing), and it's trivial to validate correctness.
I think GitHub Copilot (and LLMs for coding more generally) are best seen as a complement to traditional IDE completion.
Textual word completion is useful even when you have type-aware method completion. Copilot feels like a more powerful case of word completion.