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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
Then do care to look for? There are PRs, there is a dev that approves changes. It's stupid to resist agentic AIs when they boost productivity by a lot.
Citation that isn't anecdotes please, only actual study I've seen into this was a ~19% drop and even that was flimsy.
19% drop in what?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/
Uh, idk how they got that number. It goes against the observations of literally everyone in the industry, so maybe it's not the industry that is biased, but the benchmark they did is incorrect?
Like just several sprints before I've saved my team by generating proto contracts taking backend repo as a context, as backend was busy with other higher important things to unblock us. No AI here means we would be blocked full stop for the entire sprint. And when backend did generate the contract, it was almost identical, and the diff in contracts allowed to identify the issue in the entities they send.
True, some tasks can be done faster without AI, because you have the context and the amount of code volume is actually fairly low.
But
My brother in Christ, in big enterprise project chances that you have some familiarity with the code, well, they are non-zero, but also not that high.