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Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer

10•throwawaybbbbbb•5h ago
I went to see my Cursor (the AI IDE) analytics and clicked a banner advertising their new company-level analytics dashboard. It now has a section “AI Edits by repository” that includes all the repositories used with Cursor, including your personal side projects. [0] I suspect they scrape the name of the repository from the list of GIT remotes, without explicit consent or notice.

If you're using Cursor with a company (teams, enterprise) subscription, information of all your code commits is sent to their API. This telemetry cannot be disabled and is available in a highly granular format in their API. [1]

The dashboard includes also includes information on when you were writing code. [2] The data is available in a highly granular format in their API. [3]

[0]: https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/analytics#repository-insights [1]: https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/ai-code-tracking-api#get-ai-commit-metrics-json-paginated [2] https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/analytics#daily-usage [3] https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/ai-code-tracking-api#get-ai-code-change-metrics-json-paginated

Comments

Iolaum•4h ago
Am I wrong in understanding you were using the company account with the enterprise subscription while you were working on those side projects? Or were you using a different account?
binsquare•2h ago
Sounds like he was using a company account? In that case, the default is always to expect that the company will see everything including personal projects.
nis0s•2h ago
Uh, no? I don’t think that’s a thing in any JetBrains IDE, unless I am mistaken.
bloppe•11m ago
Does your employer provide you with a laptop? In that case you should assume they have access to the hard drive at least.
speedgoose•4h ago
If you can’t trust your company with your side projects, you should perhaps not do side projects on your company provided computer and AI subscriptions.
giantg2•1h ago
"If you're using Cursor with a company (teams, enterprise) subscription, information of all your code commits is sent to their API."

Yeah... get your own personal subscription. Creating side projects on company resources could lead to ownership disputes - you could lose it to your company.

tyleo•1h ago
Agreed with this point. I try to separate everything possible from my company with multiple accounts. It’s annoying, sure, but you’ve got to protect yourself.