Ask HN: How do you work within corporate restrictions to use AI coding tools?

Posted by bdcs on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm curious how many people: * Bypass corporate restrictions on AI tools (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42932056) * Ignore AI due to corp-limited tools (or AI being slop) * Found what is available to be good enough (e.g. Cursor would be nice but Github Co-pilot is good enough)

I assume this is a bit of a messy middle problem. Tiny startups have no corporate controls. The FAANGs of the world have their own first-class AI tools. The mid-sized ones might have some tools approved, but they're dated and the rest are blocked.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work within corporate restrictions to ... by throwawaysleep on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:28PM (#42965072)

I am very much in the 1st group. AI tools except for Co-Pilot are banned, but I use ChatGPT and Gemini a ton. AI lets me do an entire sprint of work in 1-2 days and still get in an extra ticket. I demolish the metrics of other team members while clearly working far less than they do.

So I do my tickets for the sprint,and then go travel for a week or two. Literally, I will be doing standup with my camera off at dinner in Athens or just before going up the Effiel Tower (team is based in North America) and I will push work I have been sitting on whenever I get back to my Airbnb.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work within corporate restrictions to ... by bdcs on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:01PM (#42965943)

reminds me of the classic post: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un...

OOC Do you use ChatGPT/Gemini via the chat interfaces, pasting context and design and then copying out?

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work within corporate restrictions to ... by throwawaysleep on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:57PM (#42968773)

Largely.

On my team for my jobs, most things are now microservices, so the entire codebase can go into the context and I can just send it the Jira ticket with some clarifications and ask what needs to be done. Follow up question is a test.

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