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Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Re: Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Post by throwitaway222 »

There are now a lot of baked in skills that simplify deployment for people that don't understand deployment. They probably should have asked first before. Since skills are "instructions" and making a skill a default, it makes sense that YOU didn't ask for this, but the skill did.

Re: Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Post by npmn »

throwitaway222 wrote: post #3

There are now a lot of baked in skills that simplify deployment for people that don't understand deployment. They probably should have asked first before. Since skills are "instructions" and making a skill a default, it makes sense that YOU didn't ask for this, but the skill did.

Agreed - it felt like codex was pushing to my git repo - I said yes, then quickly realised what was already done .

Re: Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Post by ddxv »

I think this is where OpenAI and Anthropic will need to go. They need to lock their clients into an ecosystem.

Maybe they invent some file format proprietary for their projects.

Most likely they run more and more in the cloud such that it's harder to switch away to cheaper models.

Re: Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Post by dpoloncsak »

>Treat the repo you point it at as already leaked

I don't mean this to downplay your experience, and I agree it should be opt-in by default, but any software engineer using these tools should understand completely that in order to 'read' your repo it needs to copy it all to the provider's servers. Using anything short of a local model has ALWAYS been a complete leak.

Re: Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra

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Post by eventualcomp »

Why? Why do people submit content for our reading when it is not their words? Does it give legitimacy to them? Does it push an agenda? Does it make you look professional? Is this for some kind of executive or boss?

"The part I have to be Fair about" "Why it did this", "Why this should bother you", "honest framing", ...

The things you are doing differently are not legitimate guardrails either. An AI article warrants AI-generated criticism, so I'm not going to say more.

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