I can believe that someone at proton vibecodes, and that their files got ob to the tree, but saying that proton as a whole does it is strange.
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Using Cursor =/= "Vibe Coding" people need to really stop with getting jumpy about everything in such a way.
It might have been that some employee just tried out cursor and accidentally added it to the repo. That is true.
However the complete lack of communication suggests otherwise. And depending on your threat level you should always assume worst.
As for the use of ai in general, in my opinion there are occasional places where ai can be used without compromising security.
So depending on your threat level this can actually ne a big deal.
I’m not sure why being a “privacy vendor” forbids you from using AI tools in your development process
You are buying a bicycle online.
Both are the same price, but one is handmade by a skilled professional with decades of experience, the other is made by a sketchy machine that even it's creators don't really understand... and sometimes uses square wheels instead of round.
Your choice.
I see their repo is open source. Is there any actual evidence that the sketchy machine generated any part of it?
But what does that have to do with consumer privacy?
"consumer privacy" in this case would be your safety while on said bicycle, imo, and square wheels will send you for a tumble.
AI slop comes with security holes (see recent Tea business, and countless other examples). As a user of Proton services, paying actually quite a bit of money annually for that — and being that they talk a really big game about how secure and private they are — I expect their app to be MORE secure than your average mail client, not the same, and not very possibly LESS secure.
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!
VS Code also has AI features. Would you be telling people to not use other suites if they were being developed in VS Code? Why should they be forced to use an IDE that explicitly excludes AI?
Is vscode marketed as an ai code editor?
Yes… 
Poor choice of words, what's the appeal of cursor over vscode? the ai features.
Pretty sure they both have the same AI features
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I thought this was the gaming compatibility layer at first
not surprising when you know who andy yen is.
God banned on proton sub for calling out this poor CEO's antics
They love free speech when they charge you money but no when you express your opinions online about their product and "leadership" 🤡
Years and still no contacts, I am making plans to move again
Never do one stop shop services people!!! Google and apple should have already taught you that