Are you allowed to use LLMs at work?
Curious how other embedded teams are handling this.
Is ChatGPT/Claude actually allowed where you work?
I’ve heard everything from “completely blocked” to “fine, but don’t paste code” to companies providing their own approved AI tools.
For embedded, the tricky part seems obvious: the useful context is often the sensitive context. Firmware, logs, BSPs, hardware configs, internal APIs, device details, sometimes even credentials.
So I’m wondering how this works in practice.
Do you use LLMs for debugging or firmware work? Does your company have a clear policy around it? And if public tools are blocked, have they given you an approved alternative?
Also curious whether people see these restrictions as sensible engineering/security practice or mostly corporate overreaction.