AI Labs Are Buying Private Codebases
wunderwuzzi23 · x · 2026-07-19
A developer reports that several AI labs are contacting app developers to purchase access to private codebases, integrating this production-grade code into their training data.
The interpretation is that as training data for coding agents becomes scarce, labs are directly seeking out real-world production code to enhance the coding capabilities of their upcoming models.
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