Remember, if it's free, you're the product.<p>How common is this in privacy policies?
> For security and privacy reasons, we request that you abstain from disclosing personal information, including passwords, credit card numbers, or other confidential data. Our commitment to safeguarding your privacy is unwavering, but the security of personal information also relies on safe user practices.
I don't see anything about source available, git repository links or opensource licensing. Why would I switch from a free and opensource IDE to a closed source IDE offering no benefits?
I became unemployable sometime five years ago, throwing my CV into the abyss since then. This video alone almost gives me epilepsy with music and flickering. Is this how software development looks right now? Every code snipped including secrets goes to some remote server?
I worry about privacy issues for all LLM systems that are not running on my own computer (I use Ollama, but there are many other fine tools to use).<p>That said, I have been using Trae to design, code, and debug programming examples for a new book I am writing. I also use Grok, Meta’s models, Claude, and OpenAI for design, coding, and trouble shooting problems.<p>For ideological reasons I start work with local models on Ollama, but as needed I will use everything available, if needed.
The website doesn't seem to mention anywhere that it's from ByteDance?<p>Also from the terms of service:<p>"You hereby grant to us, our affiliates and our third party partners (“SPRING Parties”) an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual and worldwide license, to reproduce, use, and modify Your Content in connection with the provision and improvement of the Services and its underlying technologies, as well as for the SPRING Parties' respective business operations, in each case, to the extent permitted by applicable laws."