Use Your Tokens Before You Lose Your Tokens

If you have the privilege of a GitHub Copilot Education license or a workplace-wide Google AI Plus subscription, I have one primary piece of advice: burn through your credits. These institutional offerings provide a unique “sandbox” where you can fail for free. My recommendation for mastering these agents is to start small but think critically. Begin with a project you already know inside and out. Take a well-documented method and ask the agent to document it from scratch. Does it capture the nuance? Does it understand the “why” behind the logic? Now, expand the scope: provide the agent with the entire class or module and repeat the task. Observe how the quality of the output shifts as you provide more project context. This exercise isn’t just about documentation; it’s about learning the “contextual threshold” of the model you are using. Once you understand the agent’s baseline, move into active validation: Tooling Audit: Ask the agent to identify all the explicit and implicit configur