On: Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

[Maxion]

For me it's really goddam satisfying having good autocomplete, especially when you are just writing boilerplate lines of code to get the code into a state where you actually get to work on the fun stuff (ther harder problems).

[amelius → Maxion]

Also if your code gets sent to someone else's cloud?

[infecto → amelius]

I don't care. The vast majority of code written in the private space is garbage and not unique. Products are usually not won because of the code.

Would I send the source of a trading algo or chatgpt to a third party, probably not but those are the outliers. The code for your xyz SAAS does not matter.

I am probably an outlier in that I don't really care what corpus a LLM trains off of. Its its available in the public space, go for it.

[mewpmewp2 → amelius]

Have you ever had your code repository hosted by Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab or similar?

If so, all your code is sent to cloud.

[amelius → mewpmewp2]

Answer: yes, some code. But other code I and my company like to keep private.

[mewpmewp2 → amelius]

Where exactly is the repo hosted if there is one?

[cesarb → mewpmewp2]

It's common for companies to have something like self-hosted GitHub Enterprise or self-hosted GitLab hidden behind the company's VPN.

[mewpmewp2 → cesarb]

But where is the box where it's hosted? Is it in-house?

[_heimdall → mewpmewp2]

There are alternatives out there for self-hosted git. I have a Gitea instance running on a mini PC at home for my own projects.

[mewpmewp2 → _heimdall]

Do you have backups of that as well? If something were to happen to your mini pc would you lose your code?

[_heimdall → mewpmewp2]

Great question, yeah I do. Right now it backs up to a separate NAS on my home network. Every once in a while I'll copy the most important directories onto a microSD card backup, but its usually going to be at least a few weeks out of date.

[amelius → mewpmewp2]

Own servers.

[mewpmewp2 → amelius]

Do they manage their own servers? I wonder what proportion of companies would have in house servers managed by themselves.

[amelius → mewpmewp2]

They are colocated in a data center and you need physical keys to access the rack.

[red_admiral → mewpmewp2]

Internally hosted gitlab instances are a thing.

[mewpmewp2 → red_admiral]

They are, but frequently the boxes where they are hosted are in AWS or similar. Or do frequently companies have actual in house servers for this purpose?

[red_admiral → mewpmewp2]

Not in house, but in a "segmented" part of the cloud that comes with service level agreements and access control and restrictions on which countries the data can be hosted in and compliance procedures etc. etc.

An extreme example of this would be the AWS GovCloud for government/military applications.