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Web vs. CLI

Web vs. CLI - Windsurf Tutorial

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Web vs. CLI

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- [Educator] The fundamental privacy difference between CLI tools and web-based AI interfaces lie in how you share code and maintain control over sensitive information. Let's break down the privacy implications of these two approaches to AI assisted development. The web-based approach follows a manual workflow. When you need AI assistance, you open your IDE, copy the relevant code, switch to a web browser, paste it into the chat interface, and copy the response back to your IDE. This manual process creates several privacy vulnerabilities where, first off, you're making split second decisions about what's safe to share every single time that you need help. So under pressure, it's easy to accidentally include more code than intended. Maybe you grab an extra function that contains API endpoints or comments that reference internal systems. And secondly, there's no real systematic way to exclude sensitive files. If you're…

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