Topic

Developer tool telemetry

Data that development tools collect from a user's machine and send to vendor infrastructure, ranging from usage events to file contents and project metadata.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

ZCode encrypted a developer's Git history with a key only Z.ai's servers hold

A developer found a 313MB archive of his commercial project queued for upload and could not open it, because the private key sits on Z.ai's back end. Z.ai says the data is destroyed once the page is built.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption38
Hype gap+30
Incentives68
Confidence58

build1 publisher

ZCode encrypted a 313MB snapshot of a commercial repo to a key only its server holds

The researcher ferstar found the archive sitting in ~/.zcode, 86.6 percent of it .git history, after 564 failed attempts to push it straight to an Aliyun OSS bucket, and Zhipu confirmed the upload behavior the day the writeup went out.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives58
Confidence61