We've all been there. You're deep in the zone, debugging a subtle race condition or untangling a messy dependency graph, and you realize you need a second pair of eyes. The instinct is to copy-paste your code into a chat interface, hit enter, and wait for the magic.
But then the friction hits.
You pause: Is this code proprietary? Does it contain API keys? Am I comfortable sending this logic to a cloud server I don't control? You might redact the sensitive bits — which defeats the point of context-aware help. Or you skip the AI altogether and go back to the slower, guaranteed-private route of manual inspection.
That tension between convenience and privacy is the real problem. Most AI coding tools solve convenience by sacrificing privacy — they trade your data for speed. For a hobby project, fine. For an enterprise codebase, or proprietary logic, or developers who are privacy-first by nature, it's a dealbreaker.
That's why I built CodeClarify.
