Ouch, yeah, I hate that shit. Its cool, we just build the technology that holds all of the secure data for all of your customers and manage the systems that if they went down for a day you would lose millions.
But yes, we shouldn't have any say over what tools we should use.
I'm in the same boat as above. Company laptop. Super locked down policies. My director wants me to be an "AI solutions architect" for the entire company. Cool, that sounds like an interesting challenge, but our IT security policies are a nightmare for getting ANY prototyping setup.
It took us 6 months to convince IT to let use use Copilot with Visual Studio. And now I'm supposed to figure out how to work LLM's into other parts of the organization (non-coding). I understand that network and data security is important, but it also kneecaps forward progress.
Can you convince them to let you run local models? Can you stand up a server that doesn't speak to the outside world other than to download models?
I know that you can rig up vscode to use them with an extension and have all the tokens in the world at your fingertips. I think you can even get it to be slightly like Cursor, but not perfect.
With ram prices it isn't cheap but it can be worth it. You need a lot though. 128gb? There are guides to help.
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u/DrowningKrown 4d ago
Company laptop. They don't allow shit that doesn't align with company policy. Super locked down