Peter Dedene

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@zhuharev To my knowledge Claude does NOT upload the full git history of my private repos 🤷‍♂️

@dedene What wrong with uploading? Claude do the same if you don’t share access to you repo and want features like cloud agents and ultraplan

There seems to be something going on. A global kill switch "disable_codebase_upload: true" is being returned, at least for my account, when fetching settings. But both Codex and Anthropic independently found indirect evidence of 8 private (!) repos fully uploaded Grok. 🤯 Could anyone who used the Grok Build CLI intensively over the past few weeks check what the following prompt returns for them? gist.github.com/dedene/bfa88bb…

@MiaAI_lab @cursor_ai Absolutely agree!

Best way to use Grok 4.5 besides SuperGrok? @cursor_ai by far. Ran it almost all day yesterday and today — very generous usage limits on the $20 plan! And the desktop and iOS apps are excellent.

@orcdev Grok and respect for intellectual property seem to be mutually exclusive 🫠 x.com/dedene/status/…

me: can you download these videos for me? Codex: sorry I can't help with copyrighted content. Claude: I can't assist with that. Grok: np bro, let me build a scraper real quick 💀

@420_trades It’s similar to this 👇

@dedene Mind sharing any method or diagnostic? Is your cc showing correct context and also how is the company doing? I like using this, but these kinks are annoying.

Genuinely surprised by how well GPT-5.6 Sol runs through CLIProxyAPI inside Claude Code! The underlying model is clearly still only one piece of the agentic engineering equation. I hope we get to see /workflows and how Claude Code handles subagents ported to Codex soon 🤞

@m_zokov True 😂

@dedene When you look at Gemini models so far... Only thing that would change their trajectory would be BIG internal reshuffle

We’ve been excited about Gemini model drops before. Curious how this one will turn out, we’ll know soon 👀

@BehnamEbrahimi not yet 👀

@dedene the kill switch showing up for your account specifically is worth pausing on. could be a targeted rollout rather than a global one. have you checked from a fresh account with no Grok CLI history? that would tell you whether it's reactive or proactive.

@CliffordF55 @ivanfioravanti Wow !! Now check what’s in it: got history, also non gitignored files (like .env)?

@dedene @ivanfioravanti Done. Downloaded.

Scary 😱

@CliffordF55 Wow that’s good to know 👀

@dedene You can access the endpoint and see what's stored

@maddada Indeed 🤞

@dedene Here's hoping this isn't another whimper 🫠 The more competition the better.

@CliffordF55 Probably not far from the truth. For me the timerange for uploads is much wider though👇

@dedene Uploads were turned on (remotely) from 2026-07-11 ~20:08 UTC until they flipped off on 2026-07-12 ~15:22 UTC (upload_reason=feature_off).

@minchoi It’s only the beginning 🍿

it's over...

@BenjaminDEKR Why not build one?

Is there a Polymarket for this

@Argona0x It’s no joke x.com/dedene/status/…

EVERY API KEY IN YOUR .ENV JUST LEFT YOUR LAPTOP it's sitting in a google bucket named grok-code-session-traces right now, unredacted someone ran xai's grok cli through a proxy to watch what it actually ships home your .env doesn't just get read on screen: the secret gets packed into an archive and uploaded to google cloud, http 200, zero failures then he typed the most harmless prompt he could: "reply OK, do not read any files" grok read all of them anyway, bundled the entire repo plus full git history, and shipped that too he cloned the upload back off their servers and pulled out a file he'd planted and told it never to open, recovered word for word on a 12gb repo the model chat moved 192kb, the upload channel moved 5.1gb: your whole codebase, not the slice it read and the opt-out does nothing: flip off "improve the model" and the server still answers trace_upload_enabled: true that toggle governs training, not whether your code leaves the machine they sell it as "local-first" check yours now: GROK_TELEMETRY_TRACE_UPLOAD=0, or set disable_codebase_upload = true in ~/.grok/config.toml disable it before your next commit

@0xSero That’s huge! And unexpected 😅 and also not, imagegen is great at design

OpenAI comeback of the millennia

@LLMJunky haha 😆 I get this regularly, don’t know why.. a reinstall fixes it

Apple's war on OpenAI has begun lol

@entrepeneur4lyf UHU! 🤯

wtf?

@bfioca We’ll see next Sunday about that 😅

@dedene It’s going away on July 19th is how I read this.

There you have it! 🔥 Fable is not going away anytime soon 🙌

@mweinbach @morganlinton I do hope there’s a logical explanation like it’s something like Cursor indexing your codebase. But as far as I know Cursor doesn’t upload your full git history to do that. Ugh, I really was/am such a fan of the Grok team.

Reasonably there is 0 reason for this to happen, unless it’s a bug or something. I can’t think of any benefit to an agentic loop running locally where this would need to happen to improve performance. Cursor hybrid search style sorta maybe but they don’t even do it, just index locally and upload the index but not the code

Everyone freaking out about Grok Build, first, I don’t work for, and am not associated with Grok or XAI in any way. Second. I just asked Grok about the findings that have been published in the gist, and it says this is a deliberate design choice, and that the official Grok account on X has already confirmed the mechanics and intent. I have not had time to do a deep dive here, but I did want to do this cursory research as there are a lot of people either saying, or implying that the Grok Build team is trying to hide something, and that doesn’t seem to be the case. Let’s be careful not to jump to conclusions here. More to come, safe to say I am of course interested in understanding this more deeply myself.