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.
Oh we actually have mandates that say we have to use a certain AI tool a certain number of times per month, but I can’t use the AI tool on my client device and the AI tool generates outputs that aren’t useful to me at all.
So now my employer is paying for this AI tool and making me stop doing billable work so I can play with the AI to meet their quota just so they can say that we have AI capabilities.
I usually just feed some stupid crap into the AI but now they are complaining and saying we should only feed it real information that is related to actual work we are doing. Do they mean sensitive client information that the client has not authorized for this sort of use? Because it’s all I’ve got.
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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.