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How is this proof of vibecoding?
https://docs.cursor.com/en/welcome
Using cursor doesn't mean you're vibe coding.
I use ai all day at work for development, none of it is vibe coding.
Yeah there’s a big difference in code quality between using cursor as an aid to write code and vibe coding which would be asking it to write and debug large swathes of code with little human input. AI is very good at correctly writing a couple lines at a time. It quickly loses the plot when trying to write hundreds of lines or more and the human user has no idea what it’s doing anymore.
Sure, but even VS code has been pushing Copilot pretty hard and from the screenshots the setups look fairly similar. It's a recently released code editor with their own personal AI built in vs. VS Code which has the AI as an extension (or built in, I don't know what the default install is like these days).
If they're using it to auto complete lines of code or fill out boilerplate then I don't see the problem. If they're typing "make me a password manager" into the prompt window, hitting enter, and accepting it blindly, that's a problem. Also the code is (at least in this case) open source, so there should be better evidence of bad vibe coded code than the presence of a config file
I think there are better things to criticise Proton for, and unless there is more to the vibe coding than using the Cursor, citing this as a reason will get those other criticisms ignored in the noise.
It doesn't matter Proton is the whipping boy of the fediverse
I wish it was
If you were smart enough to look for an answer to the actual question being asked instead of assuming it's a rhetorical that agrees with your bias you'd have learned something today.
Cursor is an "ai powered" code editor, cursorrules is a file it uses for configuration.
Unfortunately, so is Visual Studio and VS Code.
The presence of an AI assistant isn't evidence of vibe coding. Even using that AI assistant to auto-complete lines or small sections of boilerplate isn't vibe coding. To do that you need to ask the AI for whole swaths of code and then just accept what it gives you.
Proton's repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?
Why would you use Cursor instead of VS (the standard for decades) if you're not going to use the AI features Cursor was specifically created for?
Sure, but cursor is different since it's marketed as an Ai editor. VScode is just a general one.
Ai code is plausible bullshit, it may work, it may have bugs or vulnerabilities. It's harder to spot these since its plausible bullshit.
See, that is just the thing: VS Code is marketed as an AI editor. The homepage is literally an autoplaying video of an AI writing code with this title, big and bold, right at the top of the screen:
Poor choice of words on my part, The only appeal of cursor over vscode is the ai features.
This really depends on what their code review process looks like. When I review code, I honestly don't care how it was generated, I look at the requirements and the code, and determine whether the code meets the requirements. How the code was generated doesn't impact that at all.
Dude, you're flaming a company because one of the tools they use is marketed as using AI? You gotta be kidding me. If your bar for privacy requires you to dive down this deep into a company's asshole, you might as well just become Amish
Poor choice of words on my part, The only appeal of cursor over vscode is the ai features.
this is, after all, why we review and trst code.
Your opinion is based on your ideology of what’s wrong and good, but it is not factual