But you aren't just asking for edits to your code, right? Copilot will actively suggest code completion as you type. This is the real benefit over chat as it's like pair programming.
That, and the way it generates commit comments, I don't think I will write another commit message even again.
The first paragraph implies that they are. I’m doing the same, works really well for writing new code or refactoring. Then polish it up by pointing out bad parts in the chat. At the end I step in and do some manual polish.
I use VS Code too and in agent mode I can say things like “move the database querias into a new module called models.py and convert the SQL into SQLModel classes”. It’s pretty awesome to do chores.