Review GitHub Copilot output like you would a teammate
Copilot speeds up typing, not judgment. A short review discipline keeps its suggestions from becoming tomorrow's bugs.
Copilot is excellent at the next obvious line and at patterns it has seen a thousand times. It is weak on the parts that require your context: the invariant that lives in another file, the edge case your users actually hit, the security rule your team agreed on last quarter.
Treat every suggestion as a draft from a fast junior. Read it before you accept it. Ask the two questions you would ask in code review: does this handle the failure path, and does it match how the rest of the codebase does this. If the answer is unclear, do not accept it just because it compiles.
Lean on it hardest where correctness is easy to verify: tests for existing behavior, repetitive transforms, and boilerplate. Slow down where it is not: concurrency, auth, money, and anything that deletes data.
Key points
- ·Accept suggestions as drafts, not answers.
- ·Ask the same questions you would in code review.
- ·Verify hardest on concurrency, auth, and data loss.
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