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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

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.

rocketbop 4y ago
This is probably obvious for a developer, but it will happen as it might not be obvious to everyone in the company.
- jasonlotito 4y ago
  > This is probably obvious for a developer No. Not in the slightest.
  - canadianfella 4y ago
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- anthomtb 4y ago
  > 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 4y ago
    Or they were staffed by SWE I and II's with no/limited leadership or support.
  - mypornaccount 4y ago
    what top secret revolutionary innovation is 200 lines long?
- shagie 4y ago
  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."
draw_down 4y ago
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DebtDeflation 4y ago
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 4y ago
  And there is an open and self-hostable alternative, Languagetool!
  - red-iron-pine 4y ago
    Specifically: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server
Beaver117 4y ago
What do you consider a secret really? Most tech companies are pretty boring.

rocketbop 4y ago

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

jasonlotito 4y ago
> This is probably obvious for a developer No. Not in the slightest.
- canadianfella 4y ago
  [dead]
anthomtb 4y ago
> 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 4y ago
  Or they were staffed by SWE I and II's with no/limited leadership or support.
- mypornaccount 4y ago
  what top secret revolutionary innovation is 200 lines long?
shagie 4y ago
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."

draw_down 4y ago

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DebtDeflation 4y ago

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 4y ago
And there is an open and self-hostable alternative, Languagetool!
- red-iron-pine 4y ago
  Specifically: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server

Beaver117 4y ago

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