I think a good example is Microsoft Source Safe. Microsoft had the strongest incentive to use their own product internally and yet even a company this size coul

I think a good example is Microsoft Source Safe. Microsoft had the strongest incentive to use their own product internally and yet even a company this size could not resist the pressure in the long run to use a marginally better product. We will see how this turns out with LLMs and while I wish companies were more concerned about what data they share with third parties my experience is that apart from military/intelligence related data everything can and will be outsourced.