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I really don't understand comments like this.

Someone spends time and effort building something they find useful and publish it for free. But because they integrated an objectively useful tool that isn't perfect, people feel the need to point that one thing out.

If it's not for you, it's not for you. If you don't like that feature, fork the repo and create your own version without it. Or just ignore it and move on.

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It's a short comment so it's easily misunderstood He probably means that due to compliance and security and so on, data leak risks etc, it would never be greenlit to be used because COBOL which is mostly in the financial industry and many other very relied upon infrastructure things, while you could just get advice from chatGPT while coding away for example that wouldn't be allowed because of the proprietary secret nature of the code and the data Even just internal coding customs if understood by the hypothetical enemy through leaks on prompts with important data that was used to train a newer model, raises the risk of being attacked in a more sophisticated manner So while it's awesome that tools are started to be built, and I wished there was more of it while working on the same thing, there is a whole lot of analysis on if a tool is even allowed to be used while still being compliant with all of the various regulations that have to be followed both in working style and security and data protection

Sure, we can all do some interpreting on their comment which fits our narratives, but that's missing the point.

If they made the exact comment you did, it would've been a good addition to a discussion about the usability of the provided tool. They didn't do that. They just wrote a single short sentence dismissing all of the work of the creator of the application for some reason that wasn't actually explained. Which is why I don't understand that type of comment.

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