Copilot adoption dies in the onboarding gap

Rolling out GitHub Copilot across the Loans and SME squads taught me that licensing is the easy 10%.

Engineers who got a 30-minute pairing session in their first week kept using it three months later. Engineers who just got an email with a license key mostly didn’t. The tool wasn’t the blocker — habit formation was.

Lesson for the next rollout: budget for onboarding time like it’s a feature, not an afterthought.