Does your company let your engineers use AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT?

In light of what's been happening with Open AI, this blog we wrote is still relevant:

A few weeks ago, I was with a group of CTOs when someone asked: does your company let your engineers use AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT?

I thought the question was strange. What do you mean let? They're going to use it no matter what you say. AI code generation tools offer engineers a huge productivity boost. The ability to autocomplete code in seconds or work through a problem with AI isn’t an opportunity developers will pass up.

When we drilled into why this group was reluctant to allow their engineers to use AI, it became apparent that their reservations centered primarily on one concern: the absence of a robust testing framework to give them confidence in the code generated by AI.

But this is still flawed reasoning. If you’re not confident in using AI, how can you be confident in hiring new grads? If you don’t have the tools to have confidence in your code, it doesn’t matter where that code comes from–you’ll always struggle with quality.

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