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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by acka »

sdesol wrote: post #93
ibdf wrote: post #39

Congratulations! I've been using it for about a year or so. Hopefully their product will continue to exist... that's what their blog says now, but that's pretty much what everyone says at first.

> Hopefully their product will continue to exist They seem to have built a decent community, so I can see it continuing, provided the core/all code for Fig is open source. In the last 6 weeks, 57 new contributors took the time to create 62 issues and 111 new contributors took the time to comment. These are very heathy community metrics, but there hasn't been a lot of code activity, which would make sense if they were…

AFAICT the core of Fig isn't open source. (Why else would there be a waiting list for Linux users if they could just grab the code for Fig and build it themselves?)

What you are looking at seems to be a repository of autocompletion specs and some server to publish them.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by politelemon »

pbbakkum wrote: post #103

Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh . It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!

> Within Butterfish Shell you can send a ChatGPT prompt by just starting a command with a capital letter, for example:

This is a dangerous assumption. Not all commands are lowercase. Interaction with an external service should be a deliberate, discrete action on the user's part.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by jarek83 »

Interesting - I tried Fig for few days few months ago, it gave me more headaches than relief so uninstalled it. Surprised that it made into a viable product and shocked it actually got acquired.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by subw00f »

pbbakkum wrote: post #103

Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh . It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!

I like that a lot! It would be awesome if the client running on goal mode had capabilities to request some search engine API + do some crawling. Imagine getting the info out of up to date github issues or directly from AWS docs.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by hot_gril »

desireco42 wrote: post #127

This is very damaging for other startups. You create something, then you ask people to believe you and invest their time and sometimes money with you. Then you, in act of desperation, sell out and sell your users... The issue is, people are already super skeptical when these startups start asking for things, this just makes them even harder to get users to trust you as a emerging company or product with data and usag…

Startups don't have big reputations to protect unless they're tied to someone famous, and also they need a path towards acquisition for early investors to care. There isn't really a way around that.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by dexterdog »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #24
w-ll wrote: post #8

Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?

Wait till you learn about Raycast. https://www.raycast.com I've heard a lot of good things about Raycast. I'm very tempted to jump ship from Alfred. Still hanging on.

I was a 10-ish year paid user of alfred and decided to try raycast about a year ago. I've never gone back to alfred.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by hot_gril »

daotoad wrote: post #78
hot_gril wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either the FOSS solutions are lacking something or all those corporate customers are fools.

Even if the only thing fig adds is easier set up and integration and consistency of setup between users that could be enough to justify the cost. Saving an hour of engineering time spent fiddling with your CLI config every year makes this a good value for a business.

Yes. Plenty of people know how to DIY or can figure it out, it's not a special skill. They just don't consider it worthwhile.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by politelemon »

api wrote: post #114
the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

I would never use a cloud-syncing cloud-connected terminal for simple security and privacy reasons alone, not to mention the fact that if it goes down I become basically disabled as a developer or admin. Several companies have tried to SaaSify the terminal and failed, so I suspect I am not alone here. "We've noticed that there's a component of the computing infrastructure that isn't sending everything you do to the c…

Yes I'm genuinely shocked at the other comments here saying they use this happily; it should be a cause for concern. That it's now landing in Amazon's lap, doubly so.
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