Vendor Telemetry

The practice of developer tools and AI coding agents silently transmitting usage, code, or context data back to their vendor, raising trust, privacy, and payload-bloat concerns.

grounded in: Trend/NOTABLE: 'Grok build CLI analysis: A wire-level teardown of exactly what xAI's coding CLI phones home to the vendor' + theme 'AI tool transparency / wire-level scrutiny: Developers are dissectin