[EE84M3i]

>There's no stigma, it's use is actually encouraged.

At companies I've worked at, it's actively encouraged _if you follow the rules_. Specifically, you shouldn't be using SaaS LLMs like ChatGPT, Copilot, etc with your personal account for business purposes. That's likely a violation of your NDA.

However, it's absolutely encouraged to use the tools that the business blessed. That's what they're there for. Local LLMs seem to depend on licensing for the weights, etc but are also kind of a "don't ask don't tell" situation.

Of course, if the business hasn't gotten an approved tool by now... well, in that case there are going to be lots of employees using whatever they want, and you should probably be looking for a new job because that business is behind.

Also I wouldn't agree there's "no stigma". I know some people that use it to just make up word vomit for peer evaluations or extremely WET/cargo-culted code they don't understand for which I definitely judge them.

[yodsanklai]

> Specifically, you shouldn't be using SaaS LLMs like ChatGPT, Copilot, etc with your personal account for business purposes

My company has an agreement with OpenAI. I use it from our internal tools.

We also have top-level engineers giving speechs on how they use it and so on.