Inside the Mind of a Machine: How To Master Copilot and AI

Ever wonder what happens between pressing Enter and getting a response from GitHub Copilot? Want to know what “input tokens” and “cached tokens” actually mean — and why they matter? The secret to getting better results from your AI assistant is understanding how it actually works.

In this session, we’ll pull back the curtains and explore tokenization, context windows, and choosing the right model. We’ll dissect the carefully orchestrated prompt that VS Code assembles to call the model so that you can see how tools, instructions, memory, and skills get woven into every interaction. Along the way, you’ll learn how to optimize your repositories and your prompts.

Stop guessing what your AI is doing and start engineering better, more predictable results.