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I'm honestly surprised this issue in general didn't cause nearly every company to immediately ban all AI. Why do these companies put so much effort into fighti

I'm honestly surprised this issue in general didn't cause nearly every company to immediately ban all AI. Why do these companies put so much effort into fighting right to repair to avoid IP leaks any halfway serious company could reverse engineer in a week, but on the other hand encourage their employees to vibe all company secrets into the cloud?

wxre 8mo ago
Uhh a lot of companies did and are strict on what AI tools are allowed. The main thing I had to wait on for a long time was support for preventing 3rd party code from being plagiarized since our code base was intermingled with partnered companies.
embedding-shape 8mo ago
It's a bit trite, but the answers are: 1) money 2) money Can't repair your own stuff and either need to use authorized repair shop or buy new? The company gets more money. Force your developers to forgo quality in efforts to produce more cruft in less time? The company gets more money. Of course, only considering short-term, long-term they'll lose money, but at that point all the executives and managers already got their bonuses and probably moved on to doing the same in some other company.
direwolf20 8mo ago
Companies aren't interested in hypotheticals, nobody is paid to care, and most code isn't that valuable anyway.
- godelski 8mo ago
  Code isn't valuable? And here I thought software was a multi trillion dollar business
  - direwolf20 8mo ago
    Features are valuable. Code is a liability.
fragmede 8mo ago
Contracts.
graemep 8mo ago
> Why do these companies put so much effort into fighting right to repair to avoid IP leak Only if you believe they are truthful about the reason for fighting right to repair. I think the reason for fighting right to repair is to reduce the time before a replacement purchase is required. > but on the other hand encourage their employees to vibe all company secrets into the cloud? Lots of companies do ban or restrict usage of LLMs etc.
pixl97 8mo ago
Most large companies have their CI/CD behind a proxy with an allow list and require internal approval for tools and extensions. So there is that.

wxre 8mo ago

Uhh a lot of companies did and are strict on what AI tools are allowed. The main thing I had to wait on for a long time was support for preventing 3rd party code from being plagiarized since our code base was intermingled with partnered companies.

embedding-shape 8mo ago

It's a bit trite, but the answers are: 1) money 2) money Can't repair your own stuff and either need to use authorized repair shop or buy new? The company gets more money. Force your developers to forgo quality in efforts to produce more cruft in less time? The company gets more money. Of course, only considering short-term, long-term they'll lose money, but at that point all the executives and managers already got their bonuses and probably moved on to doing the same in some other company.

direwolf20 8mo ago

Companies aren't interested in hypotheticals, nobody is paid to care, and most code isn't that valuable anyway.

godelski 8mo ago
Code isn't valuable? And here I thought software was a multi trillion dollar business
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  Features are valuable. Code is a liability.

fragmede 8mo ago

Contracts.

graemep 8mo ago

> Why do these companies put so much effort into fighting right to repair to avoid IP leak Only if you believe they are truthful about the reason for fighting right to repair. I think the reason for fighting right to repair is to reduce the time before a replacement purchase is required. > but on the other hand encourage their employees to vibe all company secrets into the cloud? Lots of companies do ban or restrict usage of LLMs etc.

pixl97 8mo ago

Most large companies have their CI/CD behind a proxy with an allow list and require internal approval for tools and extensions. So there is that.