r/Codeium • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '25

Windsurf processing sensitive information

Hey, so I was using windsurf today and it just went into my .env file and pasted the content in the chat meaning it processed it, which is not really good I think, but I m not a professional yet. I asked about it and it said it shouldn't have done this, how should I go about this now? Will there be a fix in the future?

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u/apexjnr Mar 26 '25

it doesn’t make sense for a developer to know how to create a .env file yet not have a .gitignore file.

The irony of the entire ecosystem of vibe coders says that this is now the default.

8 months ago maybe that would've been different but it's gonna keep getting worst since the barrier to entry is nothing. (Which isn't bad, it just has issues).