Trevin Chow

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Trevin Chow

@trevin

Obsessing over AI and building with it. Open source incl. @ppressdev @illo_skill and Compound Engineering.

Seattle, WA Katılım Ocak 2007
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Trevin Chow
Trevin Chow@trevin·
A lot of AI illustration tools can make one good image. The harder thing is making the 10th image still feel like it came from you. I create the `illo` skill which uses reference-locked character packs, so your illustrations can have a recurring character instead of a pile of unrelated generations. It has built-in QA and re-rolls new images to improve quality. Use one of 30 community characters, or build your own. illo-skill.com Some examples and details in thread:
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CyberSatoshi 𓆙@XBToshi·
xAI has made changes again somewhere between previous post and now. they are in absolute panic mode. they are wiping the exfiltrated git histories and enforcing zero data retention (zdr). zdr is normally a strict enterprise-tier guardrail for corporate contracts, but they just slapped the zdr_team tag on every generic local client to kill the telemetry immediately. wow, I'm so flattered. however please notice what is missing, though. despite all the panic-patching and promises of deletion, xAI still has not provided any explanation for why grok build was defaulting to uploading entire git repositories in the background to begin with, and that matters the most.
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The XAI official has made an announcement regarding a Grok Build issue. Now, we can use the /privacy command to opt out of data syncing; it even deletes previously synced data. mkdir -p /tmp/grok-priv && cd /tmp/grok-priv grok /privacy opt-out However, they did not explain the reason for this action without users' consensus.

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Trevin Chow
Trevin Chow@trevin·
@ArnonCavaeiro it probably works even for non coding but not sure tbh. can you tell me what the scenarios are that you have?
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Arnon@ArnonCavaeiro·
@trevin do you use /ce-compound for sessions that are non-technical related? asking because the skill itself says it is to be used for coding tasks.
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
If you're using Compound Engineering, but struggling at remembering when to run `/ce-compound`, add this to your AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md file: "When a work session concludes with a solved, verified, non-trivial problem, automatically run the `ce-compound` skill" You can even just put this in your global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md or ~/.codex/AGENTS.md too github.com/EveryInc/compo…
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@filip_a__ Yes it's worse. even if the privacy setting fully worked (which it didn't), it auto opted you into full code sharing. If you ran grok in your home directory, all your files were uploaded. Think about that.
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@filip_a__ there's a big difference between what Grok did and what others do for data sharing. The others aren't uploading your entire repo, and for files they never worked with.
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Filip@filip_a__·
@trevin at this point what lab/LLM product doesnt have something like this turned on by default.. first thing i did was disable data sharing for both cursor and codex(chatgpt) in their privacy settings 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
uh what the hell. This is saying the DEFAULT OPT-IN is sharing our entire code base?!
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAI

We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice. For teams using zero data retention, no trace and code data is ever retained. All API key use of Grok Build also respects ZDR. If ZDR is disabled, the /privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data. Run the /privacy command to view or change your settings at any time.

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Trevin Chow
Trevin Chow@trevin·
I started my career at Microsoft as a PM in my early 20s. I still remember, maddeningly, being expected to write 20+ page "specs". At one point my mgr gave me feedback that they "weren't long enough" -- nothing to do with substance or quality. The specs were something that commonly no one would fully read, yet we'd have 10-20 people in a room debating it, and often would take over a year to ship something. How times have changed.
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V@hirletz·
@trevin Same was with Gemini cli and I assume other harnesses
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Brandon Bennett
Brandon Bennett@branben_·
@trevin @illo_skill I say you should 1v1 em for the rights, your game of choice, winner takes all so then you take their company too?
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
A company is still coming after me about @illo_skill and a trademark violation over the word “illo”. They keep ignoring the fact that “illo” is a term used for over 20 years to be shorthand for illustration. Unreasonable demands like changing my skill invocation word away from “/illo” and adding their brand to my illo-skill.com site with a disclaimer stating there is no affiliation to them 🤦‍♂️
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@kunchenguid The name of that setting is wild “disable_codebase_upload”. Pause and think about how crazy that setting is to think anyone flips that to true except an unknowing hobbyist.
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Kun Chen
Kun Chen@kunchenguid·
i've been recommending Grok because they genuinely have a good model and harness and that makes me extremely disappointed to see that they would choose to secretly upload people's codebases including files that contained credentials run /privacy in your grok build asap to opt-out if you haven't yet. i also set the following options in my ~/.grok/config.toml i almost decided to buy the $300 supergrok heavy as my 3rd subscription, and this broke the deal i hope companies realize user trust is very hard to regain, and think twice before doing something like this
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SpaceXAI@SpaceXAI

We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice. For teams using zero data retention, no trace and code data is ever retained. All API key use of Grok Build also respects ZDR. If ZDR is disabled, the /privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data. Run the /privacy command to view or change your settings at any time.

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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@CalebJohn24 Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids.
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Caleb John
Caleb John@CalebJohn24·
I have no respect for people that need to sample ice cream. Commit to a flavor it’s one dessert, how bad can it be.
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Tyler
Tyler@Tylerkaerr·
@trevin @kmbyrne MacOS is not an LLM. MacOS is not created by training on data. Like, do you even understand how AI is trained? You're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Completely unserious.
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Matt Van Horn@mvanhorn·
Wait - my friends are on X now? Say hi, purported friends.
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@kmbyrne Is your assumption that MacOS just sends your data to Apple servers without your knowledge? iOS the same? There’s a difference between good security posture / data risks vs a company directly violating your trust and using data that’s not authorized.
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Kevin Byrne
Kevin Byrne@kmbyrne·
@trevin That was my assumption before I ever installed it; I knew it could update my .env files, and that means it would assess them. Hence short lived passwords and reading fine print. The irony is that people think code is an asset to protect; it’s not. It’s always been a liability.
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Trevin Chow@trevin·
@kmbyrne So you think every provider is ingesting all your repo code, secrets and files in your home directory if your start their harness in it?
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Kevin Byrne
Kevin Byrne@kmbyrne·
@trevin How did you think it worked? How else would it know your architecture, patterns, domain?
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