Question

You lead a team of junior developers who have adopted GitHub Copilot. Over several sprints, you notice that some developers accept nearly every suggestion without reading it, struggle to explain how their merged code works during reviews, and cannot debug issues when Copilot is unavailable. Which responsible-use strategy best addresses this over-reliance while retaining Copilot's productivity benefits?

Accepted Answer

Establish team norms that treat Copilot output as a first draft requiring the developer to understand, review, and be able to explain any code before committing it, reinforced during code review.

Answer

Disable Copilot for all junior developers until they have several years of experience, since the tool undermines their ability to learn.

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Configure Copilot to only produce comments and documentation, never executable code, so developers must write all logic themselves.

Answer

Trust that because Copilot is trained on large amounts of code, its suggestions are generally correct and require less scrutiny from junior developers.