Getting Started with GitHub Copilot: What Actually Works
TL;DR A $20/month GitHub Copilot subscription gives you Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-4o, and Gemini inside VS Code. Out of the box it’s useful. With a proper instruction setup — a copilot-instructions.md file, path-scoped rules, and skill documents — it becomes something you actually rely on. Most of the posts on this blog were built with this toolchain, mostly in the context of my k3s cluster, but the patterns apply anywhere. This is how I have it set up. ...