[svrtknst]

Don't put secrets into things you dont have control over lol.

ChatGPT is cool and all but I often feel people are too naive when using these tools, with little consideration as to how their inputs are used, if the output is copyright protected, etc.

[DebtDeflation]

Same issue with things like Grammarly. The willingness of people to send entire confidential company documents out to the cloud for stuff like this is astounding to me. "But it's only fixing my grammar."

[jacooper]

And there is an open and self-hostable alternative, Languagetool!

[red-iron-pine]

Specifically:

https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server

[rocketbop]

This is probably obvious for a developer, but it will happen as it might not be obvious to everyone in the company.

[anthomtb]

> This is probably obvious for a developer

I have come across large chunks (200+ lines) of a former employer's proprietary source code on StackOverflow a couple times. It was always from the same team/functional area, so it may have been tacitly accepted by the immediate management. Or, more likely, the team valued fixing code as fast as possible over actually thinking about what you are doing.

Basically, if there are developers willing to dump proprietary source on SO, there are developers willing to dump the whole codebase into ChatGPT.

[AlwaysRock]

Or they were staffed by SWE I and II's with no/limited leadership or support.

[mypornaccount]

what top secret revolutionary innovation is 200 lines long?

[jasonlotito]

> This is probably obvious for a developer

No. Not in the slightest.

[shagie]

Given the number of people who are pasting their code into ChatGPT and asking it to help debug it, I'm not sure that developers are properly aware of that... that's even setting side the "sending internal code to an unapproved external service."

[Beaver117]

What do you consider a secret really? Most tech companies are pretty boring.