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
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.
Do … you understand what the words “code review” mean?
Absolutely, I do them daily, what about you?
Visual Studio and VS Code have an AI assistant as well, yet we don’t decree all programs written with them as ‘vibe coding’. The presence of an AI assistant in the IDE isn’t evidence of vibe coding.
Proton’s repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?
VS existed long before the AI features were added.
For added clarity:
You are an Senior SWE at Proton and make sure you do not send any information that is potentially secure in nature. You specialize in building highly-scalable and maintainable Frontend Systems.
The worrying part is rewriting repository history to cover it up
Plug for Tuta. 🤷♂️ The user experience isn’t the best, but it’s as secure as it gets. Small team, no vibe coding.
What’s a good alternative VPN provider in EU, not based in Italy? Mullvad is not an option, port forwarding is an absolute requirement.
Also, is there anything out there that ties password/account management and temp emails together as well as proton pass?
Using Cursor =/= “Vibe Coding” people need to really stop with getting jumpy about everything in such a way.
I thought this was the gaming compatibility layer at first
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I object to your wording of “just” fucking dumb. They’re not mutually exclusive, he’s definitely evil as well.
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Who are you talking about?
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And you think Andy Yen supports Trump because of a single Tweet?
https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305eNuance? And a Lemmy.ml user?
You also have already failed the purity test by considering a different narrative.
Haha, didn’t even notice, but yeah.
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Time to migrate my email accounts I guess.
what is a cursorfile? I’ve hit things like gpt when devdocs.io isn’t getting me what I want because lots of search engine things like “explain the google maps api” are becoming like searching for a dinner recipe; they contain 300 paragraphs of life story. When I just want to actually RTFM and shit’s hard to find. I don’t copy/paste code into projects just try to find better manuals.
Cursor is a vscode fork with Ai features, cursorrules is a config file for it.
gotcha. thanks!
