Your AI assistant knows your codebase, your business logic, your communication style, and the names of your clients. It remembers what you worked on last Tuesday and why you decided to refactor that authentication module. It has context that took months to build. Now ask yourself: who else can access that memory? If you're using Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any hosted AI platform, the honest answer is — you don't know. The provider can. Their employees might. A subpoena could. A breach would. ...