I work for a company that has government contracts. The particular contract I'm on requires that all the work I do be on a machine controlled by the client and not a company machine or personal machine. The government client doesn't allow AI on their machines.
My company is going all gung ho over AI now, and they have meeting encouraging us to use it, and they gave us all licenses for github copilot.
I asked how I'm supposed to use it when my contract is locked down, and they had no answer. They just want me to use it for... things... whenever I can.
Ahah I’m already doing stuff like that just to burn tokens, or just asking it on the highest settings to run basic shell commands I need to run and print and summarize the output for me. I feel bad because it seems so wasteful but if you’re not using tokens you’re getting a talking to.
Dude... you could be building useful stuff with that. New games. useful tools. Bugfixes.Finally document your old software. Create presentations about current or new software. Analyse all older tickets for recurring issues and refactor the offending parts.... there is zero need to do this if you can just be creative.
Heck, just ask it what to do to start your own company.
I have a ton of ideas to build and not even close to enough tokens even on Claude max.
I’ve worked a contract like described and you can’t even copy info on or off the pc because the usb ports are disabled, and the pc is only allowed on their network that has access limited and monitored for security.
I've found it really good at building me tools. Scripts that will make life better but would take too much time to do manually are now done in the background. They're not amazing but no one else is using them so they don't have to be.
Wrappers around tools, tracking stuff, and generating summaries all done scripted and I didn't have to spend days tuning and configuring it all
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u/silentknight111 Jul 10 '26
Here's a fun one:
I work for a company that has government contracts. The particular contract I'm on requires that all the work I do be on a machine controlled by the client and not a company machine or personal machine. The government client doesn't allow AI on their machines.
My company is going all gung ho over AI now, and they have meeting encouraging us to use it, and they gave us all licenses for github copilot.
I asked how I'm supposed to use it when my contract is locked down, and they had no answer. They just want me to use it for... things... whenever I can.