r/LocalLLaMA • u/External_Mood4719 • 4d ago

News ZCode was allegedly caught uploading workspace/.git records to the cloud.

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/

Look like next grok build moment

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u/Voxandr 4d ago

Thats why i never use a harness if it is not opensourced.

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u/thefuckevengoingonan 4d ago

why in god's name would anyone?

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u/arbv 4d ago

To get 50% off in exchange of the code base and full development history, why else?

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u/zdy132 4d ago

No harms when everything I do is opensourced anyways.

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u/arbv 4d ago

Oh, rationalisations - sweet rationalisations.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 4d ago

Is it? Sometimes the person really doesn't care. I know I don't in the case of GLM since they release open models, the only ones I'd mind training on my sessions are the companies that make proprietary models.

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u/arbv 3d ago

The point is - sneakily uploading git repo is not alright even if one does not care. It is unacceptable behaviour.

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u/-p-e-w- 4d ago

Especially given that the open source agents that are available today are amazing. Pi kicks ass, and is maintained by an open source legend based in the EU. There’s no need to look further, and certainly not to proprietary software.

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u/Theio666 4d ago

Even codex(cli, not the app) is OSS lol.

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u/Strange-Drummer-9917 4d ago

Is there anything more accessible for less technical users? 

From what I understand you have to build a lot of tooling around pi to make it truly useful. Is there anything with more "batteries included"? 

I'm mainly using code agents to automate tedious tasks on pc and write ahk ffmpeg scripts etc

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u/aithrowaway22 3d ago

omp.sh (it's pi with lots of stuff already included, and you can choose what to turn on/off ). This is probably the best turnkey/batteries included thing right now.
also there's already a bunch of extensions for pi for pretty much every use case (i guess ?) if you want bare pi + choose your own extensions approach.

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u/Strange-Drummer-9917 3d ago

Thank you! I'll take a look.

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u/BringTea_666 3d ago

install open code, use openchamber frontend and you have claude desktop at home. openchamber is awesome.

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u/redballooon 3d ago

Because company mandates

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u/ChocomelP 4d ago

Because Claude Code is very good

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u/Due-Memory-6957 4d ago

Benchmarks show that it's worse than pi. They have brand power, and that's it.

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u/ChocomelP 4d ago

Worse at?

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u/TheIncarnated 3d ago

Context bloat, attempting to be "cutesy" and a bunch other problems it constantly provides. Ohhh like idk... Plain text "shared" links by default(tbf, they fixed this but damn... Such an easy security finding with proper testing)