Does the corporate reality differ from the enthusiasm outside about the AI revolution?
Even as the artificial intelligence tools have led to a major transformation and brought a revolution to the tech world, corporate companies in India haven’t quite embraced the new age and are imposing data security regulations on their techies. In a post shared online, a man claimed that their software development engineer friend, who works for a “big MNC”, has been barred from using new AI-based models as a potential coding companion.
“Today, I was talking to a friend who works as an SDE at a big MNC. I asked him about all the new AI models launching every other week. He looked genuinely surprised. He didn’t even know most of them,” shared the individual about their friend, roped in for a coding job at a multi-national company.
‘Don’t You Use AI To Code?”
Discovering the reality of their corporate life, detached from the AI revolution, the individual said his techie friend admitted he wasn’t aware of the coding tools he was discussing since he is “not allowed to” use them at work. The developer confirmed that all AI tools are blocked by his organisation while operating on client projects.
today I was talking to a friend who works as an SDE at a big MNC
I asked him about all the new AI models launching every other week. tbh he looked genuinely surprised he didn’t even know most of them
then I asked him, “Don’t you use AI to code?”
he said he is not allowed to.…
— Shikhar (@shekhu04) February 26, 2026
“I asked him, Don’t you use AI to code? He said he is not allowed to. All AI tools are blocked while working on client projects,” the post claimed. When asked to further explain the scenario at hand, the techie is understood to have cited the data security restrictions in play.
“Reason? Clients don’t want their proprietary code potentially being used as training data,” the post added.
Techie’s Situation Strikes A Chord Online
As the post related to an individual’s developer friend facing hurdles in using the AI tools to ease his daily operations gained traction online, people sympathised with the person and shared their own stories of the corporate world imposing restrictions on AI usage.
“Even though a new AI model appears almost every day, it takes companies a lot of time to adopt them. In my office work, I have used only ChatGPT or Copilot,” shared a person.
Someone else commented, “Corporate constraints slow adoption. Policy often lags behind capability. Builders outside big systems move faster.”
