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YesCopilot · 22 Sep 2025

Copilot can give a decent summary of where to look in a couple of seconds instead of a half hour of marking what I think are important sections and jumping around/grepping

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Copilot can give a decent summary of where to look in a couple of seconds instead of a half hour

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Helped: Finding code locations and analyzing interface edges in large projects.

… not much, other than small functions/classes/prototype libraries to get started, but I've often used it to figure out where code was that I was concerned with in huge project code bases and analyze where some of the edges of interfaces are without digging for a few hours. Copilot can give a decent summary of where to look in a couple of seconds instead of a half hour of marking what I think are important sections and jumping around/grepping