xAI’s New Coding Agent & Why Privacy Matters More Than Ever

xAI is preparing to announce Grok Code Remote at their December hackathon — joining OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code in the rapidly growing world of AI coding agents.

It’s clear now:
Every major AI lab is pushing cloud-based developer tools.

In this episode from the Ava Technologies Show, Will and Matt break down why that’s both exciting and deeply concerning:

🧠 What we cover:

• The growing reliance on single providers
• How a Claude Code outage halted workflows across the industry
• The privacy implications of sending entire codebases to remote servers
•Why open-source, local-first tools are becoming essential
• And why privacy must be a design principle, not an afterthought

The tech is powerful — no question.
But the future can’t belong to a handful of cloud giants.
Developers deserve tools they can trust, tools they can inspect, and tools they control.

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