Code-Review on Kuldeep Pisdahttps://kdpisda.in/tag/code-review/Recent content in Code-Review on Kuldeep PisdaHugoen-usSun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530GitHub Copilot Turns Reasoning Depth Into a Dial You Controlhttps://kdpisda.in/github-copilot-thinking-effort-dial/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/github-copilot-thinking-effort-dial/<p>GitHub shipped its August 2026 update to Copilot in Visual Studio this week, and the headline feature is a small UI addition with an outsized implication: a Low, Medium, High dial for how hard the underlying model thinks before it answers. Reasoning effort has existed as an API parameter for a while now, tucked into request payloads for anyone calling a model directly. Putting it on the surface of the editor, as a control a developer flips per task rather than a setting buried in a config file, is the part worth paying attention to.</p>