Keeping Git Repos Local to Dodge AI Crawling
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-07-19
Grady Booch says he keeps all his Git repositories local because he doesn't want AI to crawl his work.
This reflects a growing developer resentment toward AI training data scraping: when code and knowledge outputs are so easily harvested at scale, creators naturally lean toward keeping content local and self-isolating.
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