I’m a huge climate person. I come from ancestors that laid down the early climate change work. But This methodology seems kind whacky. I think this kind of thing hurts our credibility in the long run.
This sounds really bad. Even if you’re their boss. You’re dealing with professionals and part of that is considering their input.
I’d start with the assumption that they know what they’re doing and might have had a good reason and phrase it from there. Even if not true it sets the right tone of respect.
GOOD Point by my wife! Why can’t we have a blower on a belt to accomplish most of the sorting? Plastics blow one way and glass stays on the belt. Throw in a magnet and make eddy currents to trap metals.
How about any company that’s worried about it’s code being copied submits a copy for copilot to check against. If copilot generates any of that code it just doesn’t output it.