[tarruda]

> I’m always amused when people don’t want to send fractions of their code to a LLM but happily host it on GitHub

What amuses me even more is people thinking their code is too unique and precious, and that GitHub/Microsoft wants to steal it.

[AlexCoventry]

Concern about platform risk in regard to Microsoft is historically justified.

[Terretta]

Unlikely they think Microsoft or GitHub wants to steal it.

With LLMs, they're thinking of examples that regurgitated proprietary code, and contrary to everyday general observation, valuable proprietary code does exist.

But with GitHub, the thinking is generally the opposite: the worry is that the code is terrible, and seeing it would be like giant blinkenlights* indicating the way in.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

[vikarti]

Regulations sometimes matter. Stupid "security" rules sometimes matter too.