IP agreements generally cover the work product you create and not general programming techniques and concepts that you learn. This is different from if you com

IP agreements generally cover the work product you create and not general programming techniques and concepts that you learn. This is different from if you come up with something patentable via your work which your employer usually owns. That said I have a lawyer edit my IP agreements to scope them as tightly as possible to the company, instead of signing the broad "we own everything you make even outside of work". For some reason most devs seem to just sign them without realizing they have a say in the matter. In my contracting work my lawyer added a clause about things that I create in the process to make my job easier so that no client owns those. There's a technical term for this but it's slipping my mind right now. It covers things like writing your own code generators and automation scripts that you might use with multiple clients but are not a part of the work product.