GitHub Copilot’s 20x Price Hike Taught Me How to Manage AI Agents

I was an early adopter of GitHub Copilot back in 2021, and I’ve used it as my primary AI coding tool ever since. At first it was just a fancy autocomplete. But by 2025 I’d started experimenting with agent modes and other models, and everything about how I code had changed. Agents — especially Claude Opus — helped me dramatically improve quality, security, test coverage, and documentation across…