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A post by [object Object] (@[email protected]) saying: courtesy of @[email protected], Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
    2023·
    16 hours ago

    I can’t wait until you guys get real jobs and then realize that every company that is serious about software development heavily pushes for AI tools such as CLINE or Cursor. I use it at work but I wouldn’t say I am vibe coding (mainly because it sucks ass). the reason they deleted the file from the repo is unlikely because they don’t want people to know they use AI, it’s more likely because AI rules files can contain info that you don’t want to be made public

    • TheOneCurly@feddit.onlineEnglish
      165·
      15 hours ago

      If you’re serious about software you push design patterns and code reviews, if you’re serious about grifting investors you push LLM nonsense.

        • TheOneCurly@feddit.onlineEnglish
          24·
          13 hours ago

          You only start a project/feature once (hopefully), you either do so from sound basic principals or prompting. You don’t get to have multiple first priorities.

          • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            12 hours ago

            once again, you think it’s an all or nothing scenario, you can use an LLM while also doing code review and basic principles. You are the one telling the AI what to do, it will execute your instructions as you told it to, to the best of today’s LLM’s capabilities

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      73·
      13 hours ago

      All large corpos are pushing this on all of their paper pushers… That’s why this AI is called LLM

      It is a tool… It is as good as the person using it

      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net
        3·
        11 hours ago

        It is a tool… It is as good as the person using it

        Yea, and people are still mad about it and somehow believe people just copy paste everything without checking

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          31·
          11 hours ago

          To be fair, fake news got them work up about how it will take ur jerb…

          Anyone one with any w2 slavery experience will quickly asses that ain’t true…

          But they miss the part where it is a tool and it scale with your skill level. Anyone using to try to get the right answer will fail.

          Smart user will uses in the work flow where it helps and just keep doing their job otherwise

          It will put pressure on entry level. But it ain’t replacing mid level cogs that actually do all the work

    • galoisghost@aussie.zone
      4·
      15 hours ago

      mainly because it sucks ass

      So many people ignore this and repeat the Big tech PR talking points about AI. I had a colleague enthuse about AI agents, then demonstrate it and say “well it’s currently a little bit shit”

      The fuck people! Wake up!