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Copilots are genuinely good, and they solve a problem that most small teams don't have. They make the person already sitting in the editor faster. If your bottleneck is typing speed, that is a real win.
For a team with one engineer supporting forty other people, the bottleneck is somewhere else entirely. It's the queue. It's the bug reported in #support that sits for two days because the only person who can fix it is mid-way through something bigger.
The parts nobody automates
Between a complaint and a fix there is a stretch of unglamorous work: reading the message and working out what is actually broken, finding where in the codebase it lives, reproducing it, writing the change, running the suite, opening the pull request, and telling the person who reported it that it's done.
An autocomplete helps with exactly one of those steps, and only once someone has already decided to sit down and do the other six.
Report back in the room where it was asked
The last step matters more than it sounds. Elisha replies on whichever surface the work was assigned from — the Slack thread, the Notion card, the GitHub issue — in plain English, not a raw tool-call log. The person who reported the bug finds out it's fixed without asking anyone.