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by aulin 528 days ago
This subthread started with someone from a no AI policy company, people are dismissing it with snarky comments, along the line of your code is not as important as you believe. I'm just trying to show a different picture, we work in a pretty vast field and people commenting here don't necessarily represent a valid sample.
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klibertp 528 days ago
> people are dismissing it with snarky comments, along the line of your code is not as important as you believe.

That says more about those people than about your/OP's code :)

Personally, I had a few collisions with regulation and compliance over the years, so I can appreciate the completely different mindset you need when working with them. On the other hand, at my current position, not only do we have everything on Github, but there were also instances where I was tasked with mirroring everything to bitbucket! (For code escrow... i.e., if we go out of business, our customer will get access to the mirrored code.)

> people commenting here don't necessarily represent a valid sample.

Right. I should have said that you're in the minority here. I'm not sure what's the ratio of dumb CRUD apps to "serious business" kind of development in the wild. I know there are whole programming subfields where your kinds of concerns are typical. They might just be underrepresented here.

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aulin 527 days ago
Yes I've had plenty of experiences with orgs that self host everything, I don't think it's a minority it's just a different cluster than the one most represented here.

Still I believe hosting is somewhat different, if anything because it's something established, known players, trusted practices. AI is new, contracts are still getting refined, players are still making their name, companies are moving fast and I doubt data protection is their priority.

I may be wrong but I think it's reasonable for IT departments to be at least prudent towards these frameworks. Search is ok, chat is okish, crawling whole projects for autocompletion I'd be more careful.

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mbesto 527 days ago
> I doubt data protection is their priority.

So you're basing your whole argument on nothing other than "I just don't feel like they do that".

Does this look unserious to you? https://trust.openai.com/

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mbesto 527 days ago
> Yes I've had plenty of experiences with orgs that self host everything, I don't think it's a minority it's just a different cluster than the one most represented here.

I've done 800+ tech diligence projects and have first hand knowledge of every single one's use of VCS. At least 95% of the codebases are stored on a cloud hosted VCS. It's absolutely a minority to host your own VCS.

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mbesto 527 days ago
First, I didn't dismiss their "no AI policy" nor did I use snarky comments. I was asking a legitimate question - which is - most orgs have their code stored on another server out of their control, so what's the legitimate business issue if your code gets leaked? I still haven't gotten an answer.
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