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.
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I've realised that AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md solve two distinct problems:
* It tells the LLM the conventions of the project, avoiding follow-up prompts.
* It precomputes a summary of the project, saving a bunch of searches at the start of a session.
I wish I had a good solution to link rot on my blog posts.
Sometimes I think about saving all the external pages like Google's cache does. I worry about authors who don't want their content copied though.
The long term trend in software UIs seems to be away from 'saving'. Games autosave, websites save settings as soon as you change them, and online document editors don't even allow you to manually save!