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How do the SaaS AI code assistants work? I am guessing they have to send the entire file or the codebase to their datacenter. Won't this be a problem for corporations who want to protect their codebase?
The corporations have their own contracts with e.g. Microsoft/OpenAI. The data will likely be sent the same way as with the public tools, but the providers promise not to use it for other purposes.
I think it's definitely an issue that the code gets sent over. While, as onoki points out, the providers promise to keep the data private this still opens up a problem that their infrastructure could be compromised.