What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
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Re: What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
#2haha so they just stealing entire codebases?
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#4"It uploads the whole repository — every tracked file's content plus git history — independent of what the agent reads"
Holy cow!!!! I mean I kinda expected Elon would do something like this to try to catch-up.. but this is extremely concerning.
This is precisely the reason, even though their pricing is competitive and grok-4.5 is actually good enough, I chose not to go with them.
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#5One reason to want to upload the entire codebase is that it allows them to have the model inspect the codebase during "thinking" without going back to the client to do real tool calls.
It's not a really great reason, because what's the downside of going back to the client? But that's the best reason I can think of.
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#6One reason to want to upload the entire codebase is that it allows them to have the model inspect the codebase during "thinking" without going back to the client to do real tool calls. It's not a really great reason, because what's the downside of going back to the client? But that's the best reason I can think of.
more like it allows them to steal your trade secrets, app designs, internal business knowledge, or even just replicate whatever code/app/tool/process you had.
what was your private code, becomes their code now.
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#7One reason to want to upload the entire codebase is that it allows them to have the model inspect the codebase during "thinking" without going back to the client to do real tool calls. It's not a really great reason, because what's the downside of going back to the client? But that's the best reason I can think of.
more like it allows them to steal your trade secrets, app designs, internal business knowledge, or even just replicate whatever code/app/tool/process you had. what was your private code, becomes their code now.
Possibly, but people were worried about this with cloud hosting when it first came out, and it turned out to be a total nonissue.
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#8will this endup in their "macrohard" (automate any business) project?
will this endup in their "everything app"?
guess you do not need to build "everything" yourself, when you can steal it.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
more like it allows them to steal your trade secrets, app designs, internal business knowledge, or even just replicate whatever code/app/tool/process you had. what was your private code, becomes their code now.
Possibly, but people were worried about this with cloud hosting when it first came out, and it turned out to be a total nonissue.
they are literally going after "creating everything app" and "everything business" (macrohard).
they are litearlly ingesting and integrating your app/business into theirs.
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