cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50693956

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A post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, 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

  • x1gma@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just because they are using Cursor, it doesn’t mean that they are vibe coding. Anyone grabbing their pitchforks for that and screaming “they are vibecoding” only shows their own incompetence.

    If they would be vibecoding, their whole software would’ve gone to shit long ago.

    Just because some random people without an engineering background are using vibecoding to push their broken slop, it doesn’t mean that any kind of AI assisted coding is bad.

  • simple@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Mastodon at it again with pitchforks and torches for the slightest inconvenience.

    Using Cursor doesn’t prove anything. Many people use Cursor as an advanced autocomplete, nothing else. It’s not like they’re hammering random AI-generated code and merging it without thinking. “Vibe coding” means generating barely-working code you don’t understand to try and get thinks working.

    This shit is why I hate the mastodon community, it’s always strawmen and “you’re one of THEM” style witchhunts with them

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The anti-AI circlejerk even here on lemmy is now just about as bad as the pro-AI circlejerk in the general public, no room for nuance or rational thinking, just dunking on everyone who say anything remotely positive about AI, like when I said I like the autocomplete feature of copilot.

  • Irdial@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure why being a “privacy vendor” forbids you from using AI tools in your development process

    • ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      You are buying a bicycle online.

      Both are the same price, but one is handmade by a skilled professional with decades of experience, the other is made by a sketchy machine that even it’s creators don’t really understand… and sometimes uses square wheels instead of round.

      Your choice.

      • Rolder@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        I see their repo is open source. Is there any actual evidence that the sketchy machine generated any part of it?