Stop wasting premium requests in GitHub Copilot: the ask tool trick nobody talks about

I keep seeing engineers burn through 100 premium requests in an hour , then wonder why their engineering managers think GitHub Copilot is getting too expensive. Most of the time it&rsquo;s a workflow problem, not a pricing one. Premium requests are at their best when you give them a full-bodied brief, let the model do a serious pass, and then tighten the result without restarting the whole…