Leidos uses Sourcegraph Cody to accelerate software development and cut senior developer mentoring time
Leidos needed an AI coding assistant that met the highest security standards for government and defense clients, avoided LLM lock-in as the field rapidly evolved, and could retrieve context from entire code repositories rather than just the currently open editor tab.
Cody accelerated Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations to 80% to 90% complete within minutes, and senior developers reduced time guiding junior developers from about eight hours of the week to two. Engineers also save time writing documentation, generate boilerplate in seconds, and debug significantly faster.
Many evaluated alternative coding assistants were eliminated for insufficient security and privacy controls, and their context retrieval was limited to only the open editor tab rather than full repositories.
https://sourcegraph.com/case-studies/cody-leidos-maximizing-efficiency-heightened-security-ai-race