GitHub Copilot shifts code review from catching bugs to enforcing design and teaching. Senior engineers now focus on architectural intent and mentoring instead of spotting linter-level mistakes, using Copilot Chat to maintain company standards.
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If you're a senior dev or a staff engineer, you might be like, all right, go start with this library in this class, get going, and I'll review it. Well, if Copilot can do the get going for you, then it's actually more important that you're clear up front, and you have to talk through that creative step way more while you're working. Copilot can use your company's sort of standards to do that, or you can ask a question to GitHub copilot chat right when you're actually reviewing the code, you're reviewing the architecture, the implementation, the intention behind the change, and our most senior and staff folks are helping teach and imbue that into the code base and other engineers. Instead of spending 50% of things for 50% of time on things that the Linters didn't catch.