The most vocal anti-copilot person on my team is by far the best coder among us. His reasoning is that typing and coding is not his bottleneck, its process and politics within the organization.

I tend to agree. I just got access to copilot within the org last week, and I haven’t had a chance to use it yet due to a bunch of process and politics I’ve been dealing with. When I get back to coding, I’m not sure how helpful it will actually be. Time will tell, but I’ve never felt like I needed any more help than a search engine gives me. Usually what happens is Stack Overflow gets me in the ballpark and I need to use that info to go back to the actual documentation to get what I really need. I see copilot working in much the same way. The problems I’m trying to solve are always how to integrate with internal systems and existing other code, which I don’t see copilot helping with. It will lack the context.

A lot of people on my team are supposed to train up on what I do so we can get more people involved and I have a feeling they are overestimating how much copilot will help, and I anticipate we’ll need to do extremely detailed code reviews when copilot starts getting involved. Better code reviews aren’t a bad thing, but it will be one more thing on my plate, as not many will be qualified.