Interacting with LLMs like Copilot has been most interesting for me when I treat it like a rubber duck.

I will have a conversation with the agent. I will present it with a context, an observed behavior, and a question... often tinged with frustration.

What I get out of this interaction at the end of it is usually a revised context that leads me figure out a better outcome. The AI doesn't give me the outcome. It gives me alternative contexts.

On the other hand, when I just have AI write code for me, I lose my mental model of the project and ultimately just feel like I'm delaying some kind of execution.

It takes some skill (that you seem to have) to learn to use those LLM. Sad that not everyone see it that way...