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source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/11/the-gen-ai-playbook-for-organizations"
source_title: "The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations"
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# GitHub Copilot

**What it is.** An AI coding assistant (developed by GitHub / Microsoft) that generates boilerplate code and suggests debugging fixes. In the article it is an example in the [[concept-quality-control-zone|Quality Control Zone]]: high-accountability, explicit-knowledge software work where the AI does the heavy lifting but **experienced developers must conduct QA** and retain accountability for the final code.