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Where I work, the company has a ChatGPT contract that's used as a coding assistant tool in VS Code and I imagine also for the admin/contract/legal people doing what they do. Every contracting company developer I've worked with, their company has some enterprise ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/etc. I've talked to software developers at large companies that raved about what they could do with enterprise Claude and enterprise Cisco AI coding tools
Pretty much everyone I know at the minimum uses the Gemini Google search summary for coding questions/dockerfile/kubernetes/open shift/docker compose/helm/terraform/ansible/bash script/python script/snippets/...
edit: Ineffective activist hive mind people here don't like hearing people using AI. The first person I knew that made regular use of ChatGPT before I ever opened the webpage was an electrician. Like 2 years ago. He used it to write up his emails to customers. The second I met was a person that did marketing for a local restaurant chain. They used ChatGPT to draft marketing text for emails and mailers. Been doing that for like 2 years now as well
I remember in the news Level 5 using generative AI to create early idea. Beloved video games Expedition 33 and Arc Raiders use/used generative AI
2024 article
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/over-1000-games-using-generative-ai-content-are-already-available-on-steam-but-are-any-of-them-worth-playing
2025 article
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/1-in-5-steam-games-released-in-2025-use-generative-ai-up-nearly-700-percent-year-on-year-7-818-titles-disclose-genai-asset-usage-7-percent-of-entire-steam-library
If you're fighting against AI usage in development of anything, strategies of the last few years need to be revisited to determine where improvements can be had
I appreciate your comment, even when many others downvote it. Honest experiences like this provide context and should always be upvoted in my eyes.
You didn't even make any claims about effectiveness or usefulness. Downvotes like these make me sad and make me feel like this is an unwelcoming community in general, where you can't have open and honest discussions.
I'm glad I don't work where you do. Unfortunately though, I've heard plenty of stories from industry colleagues who have been forced to use AI coding assistants, regardless of any actual impact on productivity or reliability. The consequences of this approach are already manifesting in the form of an embarassing new era of security vulnerabilities. Preaching about the widespread usage of AI is misleading at best if the adoption is mostly based on external marketing pressure. We've had this before with other technologies that get pushed hard by sales people.
At absolute worst, bare minimum, these tools function as incredibly fast fuzzy intent based searchers on documentation
Instead of spending 10 minutes on "where the hell is (documentation) Im trying to find" these tools can hunt them down for me in a matter of seconds.
That already makes them useful just for that, let alone all the other crazy shit they help with now.
It seems like the only people who actually derive value out of it are software developers or middle managers. Every other professional discipline has liability and a need to verify accuracy before actioning something. So beyond reading the AI generated summary on a search engine for non critical things it's basically useless.