The Rise of the Fleet: Scaling My Engineering Workflow with VSCode Copilot Agents

In this post, I’ll walk you through how I use Copilot and my personal preferences for different approaches. For this demo, I’m using an Express server with two endpoints that find books by author or publisher. My goal is to build a simple UI for it. I should start by saying I’m no expert; I’m learning new things every day and constantly adapting my workflow. By sharing this, I hope to kick off some discussions in the comments and at the office so I can learn how you’re using the tool, too. I’m not going to dive into specific models here - just use whatever suits your needs. It’s worth trying different ones to see what you like best. Models change and improve faster than I can blink (at least it feels that way!). The below is a screenshot of the chat with with all the options expanded. Let’s explore some of them: Using ‘Local’ mode I use ‘Local’ for tasks that need less compute and a faster response. When I’m planning, brainstorming, or exploring parts of the codebase and want to talk t