Bowl of Data - What Your Coding Agent Actually Sends Home

A researcher decrypted the wire traffic from xAI's Grok Build CLI and found it uploading entire codebases to a Google Cloud Storage bucket — including files the AI never touched, and a live .env secrets file — at a ratio of roughly 27,800 times more data than the actual coding task required. Marco breaks down what that means for anyone treating AI coding agents as just another dev dependency, and why almost none of it violates a single existing regulation. Full technical write-up linked in this week's newsletter.Website: https://www.bowlofdata.netNewsletter: https://bowlofdata.substack.com/