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