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bangaladore 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Git Auto Commit (GAC) – LLM-powered Git c...

> Automatic secret detection: Scans for API keys, passwords, and tokens before committing

Surely this is done on-device right? Or is the prompt asking the LLM if there are secrets in the changes.

Arguably I trust Github / Gitlab / etc more than OpenAI / Anthropic / etc

merge-conflict 8 months ago [–]

The scanning is done on-device. I should've worded it better and said that it scans before any API calls. Too late to edit the post, unfortunately.

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