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Stage 6 · Lesson 4 of 7

Using AI assistants within company policy

Productivity and learning on the job

Many companies now allow AI coding assistants, but with rules. The rules say which tools are approved, whether company code or customer data may be pasted into them, and whether AI-assisted code must be disclosed or reviewed differently. Some companies put this in an .

Find and read your company's rules in your first weeks, and ask your manager if there are none. Use only approved tools with work code. Never paste , login details or customer data into anything.

Your contract's terms apply to AI tools too. Knowing the rules lets you use these tools with confidence instead of guessing.

Common trapusing a personal AI account on company code because colleagues seem to, which can breach your contract and .

A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 2 cheat sheet entries come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it

Resources for this stage

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  • BookFree
    Software Engineering at Google

    Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright · Intermediate

    Free online: the chapters on knowledge sharing and testing show how strong teams learn and work

  • BookPaid
    The Pragmatic Programmer

    Hunt and Thomas · Intermediate · About $45

    Habits for learning, debugging and owning your work that last a whole career

Practise

  • Toggl Track

    Track two ordinary weeks to see where your time really goes before changing anything

Keep handy

  • Claude Code Documentation

    How an AI coding tool handles your code and permissions, so you can check it against your company's rules

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