I dislike using AI when im writing my own code, simply because I do not believe AI is fair use or leads to anything positive for the creators of the works its trained on. I do use it to debug some stuff or get some hints but always double check whether the solution is good afterwards. With that said, if the cursorfile is just a settings file it only proves that someone has used AI in their IDE, the code itself does not necessarily have to be generated by an AI. And even if it were it could still be fine, it all comes down to the developers and the review process. The code is not inherently flawed because an AI wrote it. As long as humans are there to point out, find and prevent issues/security flaws its fine to use.

Here comes the problem though. The term "vibe coding" mainly refers to people with little to no skill as developers, mainly relying on AI to do the heavy lifting. That is very problematic. Thats when security flaws, issues and tech debt start to rack up. I havent looked at the code or researched repo history, but i would believe these devs are better than "vibe coders"

What is ". cursor"?

So a Cursor config file made it into the repo and was later removed and they just declare that this must be a case of trying to obfuscate their vibe coding policy? "They must have moved it to a private repo!" That seems like a logical jump made out of personal bias.

A far more likely case, (and one I've seen in dozens of projects myself) is that someone was using Cursor locally and committed the file by mistake. Then when they realised this, they removed it.

People (especially juniors) commit their .idea or .vscode files all the time. Normally, I catch this at review time, but sometimes it slips by. It's still not great that anyone was using Cursor in the first place, but this alone is hardly evidence of policy or conspiracy.

Visual Studio and VS Code have an AI assistant as well, yet we don’t decree all programs written with them as ‘vibe coding’. The presence of an AI assistant in the IDE isn’t evidence of vibe coding.

Proton’s repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?

anyone knows any alternative email?