> imagine a future where management even makes it policy

Because management policies correlate well with engineering excellence, right?

Reviewing code written by Copilot may be longer than writing the code in the first place.

Most of my work isn't copy-pasting snippets. It isn't even typing code. It's understanding user needs and the existing system, and then figuring out how to making things better for the user with also improving the system. So this does not do my work for me.

I can also imagine clueless bosses mandating Copilot use and that's what scares me. The real costs of most code aren't in the first writing. They're in the long-term maintenance. Copilot does not and cannot understand the whole system, or what makes for maintainability down the road. So it can't make that better, and will likely make worse. In the same way that code generation tools and code wizards made things worse.