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Amazon acquires Fig

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by skinkestek »

Tangentially related:

One of the most annoying thing is to learn about an interesting project by the post were they announce that they are aquihired, or even worse, closing down because of lack of interest.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by bjt »

projectileboy wrote: post #176
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…

Acquisitions are usually great for the shareholders, and usually bad for the employees and the customers.

At a startup, the employees are also shareholders.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by jdorfman »

I’ve been using Fig since the beta days and I love it. I’m sure there will be some changes but at least they didn’t sell to Google. Congrats to Brendan and the team.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by mrg3_2013 »

ilc wrote: post #111
ranting-moth wrote: post #30

How does one join AWS?

1. Wrong thread. 2. IMHO: Be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I've never heard a happy story about Amazon that didn't involve a metric ton of Kool-Aid.

Kool-aid was mostly leaders ending regurgitating leadership principles and gaming it (without internalizing the greatness of it)

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by throwaway2037 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #169
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…

Isn't Fig open source? Now'd be the time for people to fork it while there's still the opportunity to do so if they find genuine value in the project. My favorite 'acquihire' story is when Oracle bought out MySQL and the creator forked it and made MariaDB.

    when Oracle bought out MySQL and the creator forked it and made MariaDB
Not quite.

Wiki tells me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#History

Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB (the company) in 2008.

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.

    The day Oracle announced the purchase of Sun, Michael "Monty" Widenius forked MySQL, launching MariaDB, and took a swath of MySQL developers with him.

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Post by jozzas »

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #159
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…

The telemetry was the exact reason I never tried it. It looked amazing, but wasn't keen on fig getting every one of my inputs

It actually makes sense for Amazon integrating this with the whole browser based shell thing (which is a sensible secure default for a lot of people).

Having something with autocomplete that works seamlessly with their services seems like a better idea than a plain prompt if you're going to use their shell. Hopefully they do something sensible and customer-centric with the telemetry stuff, that seemed to be the big drawback for many.

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Post by jozzas »

politelemon wrote: post #132
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.

agree, nothing wrong with something like an `llm` prefix
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