Recently, I started to use AI coding agents. They are really great, and I feel like this is the best $100 month I spend for my career.

And yet, I understand that I don’t fully know how they work and what they do behind the scenes. I know the general gist of how an agent works, but I don’t really know if they don’t cat .env behind the scenes, or whether someone on the other side of the planet gets pieces of my code in their AI response.

This is the reason I use AI mainly at $JOB, but not on my personal project (in addition to keeping my skills sharp, and the fun factor). Do you ever think about this? Do you care?