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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

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    I think the difference here is cursor is a fork of VS code that is specifically dedicated to AI based workflows. Which means it’s highly likely, although not guaranteed, that AI is being used as opposed to the other options you mentioned which are very popular IDEs where AI is a secondary feature that might not even be enabled. That being said I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using AI with oversight, what I do see as a problem is the fact that in the face of criticism they went and hid the evidence. That’s terrifying for a privacy focused organization to do.