In a meeting of Monday morning, Thomas Shedd, the recently appointed Director of Technology Transformation Services and Elon Musk Ally, told General Services Administration Workers that the agency’s new administrator is pursuing an ‘AI first strategy’, sources to Wired said.

During the meeting, Shedd shared its vision for a GSA that works like a ‘boot software business’, automate different internal tasks and centralize data from across the federal government.

The Monday meeting, which is held in person and measures on Google, comes days after Wired reported that many of Musk’s employees migrated to the highest levels of the GSA and the Office or Staff Management (OPM) to jobs. Before joining TTS, which was housed within the GSA, Shedd was a software engineer at Tesla, one of Musk’s companies. The transition caused mass confusion among GSA staff members who were surprised one-on-one meetings, who were forced to offer their code-often to young engineers who did not identify themselves-and made them wonder what the future Some of the technical task force of the agency will look like.

Shedd tried on Monday to answer these questions, with details on a number of projects that the agency will pursue in the coming weeks and months. According to sources, his particular focus was an increased role for AI, not only on GSA, but also on agencies that are the width.

In what he described as an ‘ai first strategy’, sources say, Shedd has given a handful of examples of projects that GSA-observing administrator Stephen Ehikian wants to prioritize, including the development of ‘AI Codding Agents’ available to everyone would be set agencies. Shedd made it clear that he believed that much of the work at TTS and the broader government, especially around financing tasks, could be automatically.

“It increases red flags,” has an expert on cyber security that was granted anonymity due to concerns about retaliation that told Wired on Monday, which noted that the automation of the government is not the same as automating other things, Like self -driving cars. “People,” especially people who are not experts in the field, think of projects, often think “it’s stupid” and then find out how hard the thing really is. ‘

Shedd instructed employees to think of TTS as a software uptart that became financially unstable. He suggested that the federal government need a centralized data repository, and that he is actively working with others to a strategy to create one, although it was not clear where these repository would be based, or that these projects would not comply with privacy laws. Shedd referred to these problems as a ‘road barrier’ and said that the agency still has to push forward to see what is possible.

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According to sources, during the call TTS and the US digital services branded by the United States – as the US Doge service, or Doge, under Trump – as ‘pillars’ of a new technological strategy. Later in the meeting, he said that there is no plan to merge the two groups and that projects will both flow through them, depending on available staff and expertise, but continued to emphasize the upcoming collaboration between TTS and Doge.

According to sources, employees also asked questions about the young engineers who had not previously identified themselves during meetings. Shedd said one of them feels comfortable enough to introduce himself to meetings on Monday, says sources, although Shedd added that he was nervous about their names that are publicly revealed and that their lives have been stuffed.

According to the sources, ShedD could not answer many staff questions about the postponed resignations, the return to the office mandate, or if the staff of the agency would experience considerable cuts. At one point, ShedD indicated that the cutting of the workforce was probably for TTS, but that he did not give more details. (Similar questions were also asked on the leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency at a Friday meeting that was first reported by Wired.)

At the end of the call, sources say, a TTS worker asked if they were expected to work more than 40 hours a week, to deal with all the upcoming work and possible workers. Shedd replied that it was ‘unclear’.