Developers are increasingly adopting AI coding assistants like Cline, but this adoption often becomes an unmanaged risk due to the lack of organizational oversight. This "shadow IT" phenomenon poses significant financial and security risks, with 67% of Fortune 1000 employees using unapproved software. To mitigate these risks, platform engineers, security leads, and team managers need a path to support AI tool adoption while ensuring secure visibility and control. Gitpod offers a solution by providing standardized, preconfigured development environments that standardize API keys, ephemeral workspaces, centralized secret management, automated security and compliance enforcement, and enterprise platform integration. This approach turns unmanaged shadow IT into a competitive advantage, eliminating security blind spots, standardizing agent behavior, and transforming cost centers into value drivers.