irelephant [he/him]Proton is vibe coding some of it's apps.
panda_abyssI’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.
I don't think the concern is as much with the purity of their vibe coding, but rather that they're using an AI-first editor. This will almost certainly mean everything they're coding is being shared with AI provider(s) during the process, which some would view as at odds with Proton's stated emphasis on privacy.
Are we really shitting on companies because they have a config file for the wrong editor? Sorry, a config file for the wrong editor (excluding emacs because be as prejudiced as possible against those folk)?
Do I like “AI First” editors? Hell no. But VSCode is rapidly making that pivot and I don’t know the lineage of Cursor well enough to know if it also used to be “just any other editor”. And, from a quick google, it supports local LLMs (e.g. ollama), so the “Big AI is going to have all your code” problem is mitigated…
Also, the repo is on Github. Big AI (Microsoft) already HAS all their code. And before we have “Well you should selfhost a gitea!”: If your website is public facing, it has been scraped by “AI”. And if your open source project is hidden behind ten paywalls? I am not gonna finish that joke because people get really pedantic and pissy when you try to define “Open Source”.
At the end of the day: At a project level? If active code review by qualified developers is going on, I really don’t care how the code was written. I DO care about those individual developers and their abilities as they continue to use “AI” based tools but… that is a different discussion.
I wasn't shitting on anybody. You're ranting is misdirected.