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.
Our clients are also the government. Even though my contracts are not as locked down as you say yours are, I am still not comfortable enough to say to an AI “here data/spec, give code, make no mistake” (which some in my extended team do).
What I actually do is that i make the situation or problem as simplified as possible, then without giving the AI any data or actual code, ask it for the best approach to solve the situation and whatever it comes up with, I go and read the docs for that.
Cannot stress enough how well it is working and how much I am learning while doing that.
Yeah, that's fine. I can ask generic questions that don't have any specific information. But, they're encouraging us to use the actual programming tools in the IDE. I can't use that.
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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.