AI usage for cpp at work

I am lead architect and maintainer of my firm main app backend, spanning around 2M LOC of c++.

Industry is : capital markets, low latency, custom kernel drivers, fpga...

I often talk with peers at other firms and I see a shy usage of AI compared to what feels like the global trend.

On my side, my firm does not pay for any AI related stuff. We are allowed to use our personnal plan for work in which case will get a pro membership compensation (claude or gpt or anything) on salary but we are not allowed to paste production code into it.

I know the app very well and do everything by hand (i mean the normal way) but use the chat version of any ai to generate some things for me, like "im using opensource lib x and lib y, please generate an SQL connection pool , you may use locks and condition variable for this, cpp 20".
Then i paste it and modify it a I see fit.

Im totally happy with that and the company is successful.

I do use AI but just chat, to gather data on subjects and summarize/report. Get some ideas but basically not much code related.

And you whats your experience as a c++ dev ?

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