As much as I don't truly love the shop I'm at now, stories like this keep me from looking for anything new. At least until the AI psychosis [hopefully] passes. I can't even get my management to approve a $100 Claude Max subscription, which is kind of annoying but also means they have not changed their expectations on what the team produces. None of my coworkers is going to be shoveling AI slop my direction because then they'd have to explain to management why they are using an unapproved tool to look at internal company code.

Yeah, I can't even run AI on work hardware... I have been able to use it for writing small utils/libraries that I then pull into the work... but the divide is clear and I review all the code myself.

For a couple examples, working through an animated loader for html/js/css with an svg for the org. Another was working through a library implementation to work against an interface that was designed for Mongo, but the org is using SQL Server. Latest was a quick util to extract a zip file of pdfs into a 1bit(b/w), zopfli compressed png file per page.

Generally stuff I could do, but would take me a few days for research and experimentation vs an hour or two with AI.