From Unknown to Understood: Navigating Codebases with GitHub Copilot

As an engineer, the nature of the job means that we are moving teams, switching to new products or changing jobs with some frequency. Even if we have been working on the same feature for years, it's impossible for one person to keep track of everything in a particular codebase. Understanding how everything fits together can be slow, error-prone, and frustrating — especially under time pressure. Rather than treating AI as a code generator, I reframed it as an investigative partner — one that ca...