AI-Assisted Code Review: How GitHub Copilot Changed My .NET Development

Why I Let an AI Judge My C# Pull Requests

I had always trusted the human eyeball — the grizzled “LGTM” typed at 1 a.m. — until a sprint crunch burned us. During a client fire-drill, Copilot suggested a fix before I even reproduced the bug. That moment rewired my brain and my pipeline.

The story: a financial API started throwing oranges into our apples — literally mixing currency symbols — right when the CFO hit refresh. While I chased logs, Copilot highlighted a stray CultureInfo override and autocompleted a two-line patch. We merged, redeployed, and shaved two hours off an SLA breach.

Reputable minds agree. In Microsoft’s 2023 Developer Productivity Survey, 88% of respondents said AI tools accelerated code comprehension — twice the uplift reported for classic linters. I’m no statistician, but my espresso budget confirms it.

// Buggy: Culture-fragile string formatting
var price = $"{amount} {currency}";    // € 12,34 in German locale 🤦‍♂️
// Copilot-suggested fix
var price = string.Create(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture…