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llm_nerdtoday at 10:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

Becoming? We've moved entirely in the opposite direction.

When these tools first appeared the overwhelming conversation was about the risk of letting a remote tool siphon your code and intellectual property (where eventually they're going to add that to their training). Now everyone is using them, and that fear seems to have dissolved. Every corporation is sprinkled with Claude Code, Antigravity, Copilot, Codex, and so on. Even the long fear-mongered Chinese providers are being heavily used in many spaces.

In this case this is a PR battle between two firms, and it isn't much more. And Alibaba isn't worried about the "proprietary code" (the truth is that there is incredibly little interest in most orgs code), but that the tool is a backdoor, or at least that is the claim.


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DanielHBtoday at 10:58 AM

> there is incredibly little interest in most orgs code

I think from a commercial perspective yes, but access to source code is very good for finding exploits which could be very valuable for governments. I could also see a future where companies are directly cyber-attacking competitors in hostile markets too...

otabdeveloper4today at 10:49 AM

> and that fear seems to have dissolved

Until the first big incident, yes.