GitHub Copilot Tests Four Coding Strategies

The real lesson is that model selection is becoming an engineering decision, not a branding decision—automatic routing and hybrid workflows may offer the best practical balance.

• –Frontier models maximize capability but can burn through usage credits quickly
• –Automatic routing reduces manual model selection and reserves expensive models for harder tasks
• –Orchestration can improve results by dividing planning, implementation, and review across models
• –Local models offer privacy and predictable marginal cost, but hardware and quality limitations still matter
• –Developers should compare total task cost and working software, not token prices or benchmark scores alone