GitHub Copilot and tokens: how to keep using AI without burning your budget in three prompts (some personal lessons learned!)

Hi! For a long time, many of us used GitHub Copilot as if it were unlimited magic: autocomplete, chat, agent mode, code review, increasingly powerful models, massive context, and long-running sessions that sometimes felt like a pair-programming marathon. And it worked. Well, mostly. Now, with usage-based billing and AI Credits, many developers are seeing something [ ]