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TranscriptA 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

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

They provide no evidence of vibe coding at all. Just because someone is using an IDE with AI (which is most now) doesn't prove anything.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No one is using Cursor for the IDE feel; Cursor is just a VSCode without MS language servers and with extra AI. It's an objectively worse experience to use Cursor over VSCode, except if you vibe code.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's not exactly proof.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

If the evil didn’t convince people to abandon Proton, maybe a little bit of AI will. Amazing.

[-] [email protected] 154 points 1 week ago

Um, it’s a public repository. You can view the code that’s been added. Even if it IS AI generated, you can review it yourself.

I’m as anti-AI as anyone but this is misplaced AI-alarmism.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago

Does anyone here actually review code?

[-] [email protected] 241 points 1 week ago

Only my own code and so far most of it has been unacceptable.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

i once wrote a script to launch a program with specific flags that i think was mostly correct, it holds center place on my CV

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Pure, unabashed honesty. I love it. 🫶

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[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago

I’d bet they just added it to their global .gitignore where it should be, then removed it because they didn’t want their private dot files committed to a public repo.

I don’t think this user knows much about git works. I don’t think this is nefarious or “vibe coding” as it’s colloquially known to be. It’s a bit much to describe all LLM use blindly as vibe coding, when vibe coding usually means just blanket accepting AI content.

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

How is this proof of vibecoding?

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