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by buthowjejddjeu 33 days ago
I am not against AI but I do wonder how you guys handle the fact this leaks all your code and is stored forever on servers belonging to God knows who?

I “trust” OpenAI and Anthropic (somewhat) but to be honest I still feel only safe using it on code without any secret sauce whatsoever. Luckily that’s a lot of code, but still. I wonder how others are looking at this?

(FYI I feel the same about Github and we also don’t store our code there)

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> how you guys handle the fact this leaks all your code and is stored forever on servers belonging to God knows who?

I don't.

My company doesn't host any code on GitHub, we have our own Git servers.

Regarding the privacy issues with OpenAI, Anthropic or anyone else, we engineers are just using the tools we've been authorized to use by the company. If there's a security issue, that would need to be worked out between the company and the model providers.

Would I use external model providers through an API for personal projects? For everything I'm doing now, probably. Could I see a day where I'm working on something too sensitive to be willing to give any data to these companies? Possibly.