--- title: Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA description: Pinterest shares their journey of unlocking AI-assisted development, from idea to General Availability (GA), while addressing risks and concerns. They chose to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/unlocking-ai-assisted-development-safely-from-idea-to-ga-wpiwd19pf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA | daily.dev og:description: Pinterest shares their journey of unlocking AI-assisted development, from idea to General Availability (GA), while addressing risks and concerns. They chose to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/unlocking-ai-assisted-development-safely-from-idea-to-ga-wpiwd19pf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WpiWD19pf.png og:image:alt: Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA **[Pinterest Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/pint)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pinterest shares their journey of unlocking AI-assisted development, from idea to General Availability (GA), while addressing risks and concerns. They chose to buy GitHub Copilot as a vendor solution and conducted a trial program to gather feedback. The expansion of Copilot led to increased user adoption and they are dedicated to improving its quality and incorporating new technologies for developer productivity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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