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0 pointsguappa1y ago0 comments

If you pay out of pocket it means it's not an approved tool by your company, which means you can be fired and sued for leaking their intellectual property.

Also 20$ per month is way less than what it costs them to run it. Eventually they will need to charge way more to cover their costs, and the people who can't code without an AI assistant will need to pony up :)

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ioulaum1y ago

The coding IDEs at $20/mo do not result in your IP being shared with the AI provider for training.

That only applies to regular ChatGPT use.

And developers actively using AI for coding can easily spend more than $20/mo for the API.

There are people spending $10-15/day in OpenAI API usage working through Cline.

elicksaur1y ago

It likely doesn’t matter if it is for training in this case. I can’t send our codebase to a friend even if they would never look at it or use it.

The issue would be based on the terms of employment and the software license. There’s likely a provision that just says “don’t share” regardless of what the other party will use it for.

To OP’s point, if your company is paying for the sub, then sending the codebase data would be an approved use of the codebase as part of your job.

guappaOP1y ago

The idea of "do not send proprietary intellectual property to some rando" doesn't even cross your mind uh?

I hope your current and future employers never find this side of your personality :D

kstrauser1y ago

> The coding IDEs at $20/mo do not result in your IP being shared with the AI provider for training.

If you’re not running the model locally, you’re sending your code to them for analysis. Now ByteDance has it.

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