The related acquisition thread a few months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401</a><p>Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819</a>
Having contributed to the Fig autocomplete specs, I find this sad. The Amazon product Fig was built into basically works as replacement, which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: <a href="https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete">https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete</a>. What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should definitely be possible for an open-source re-implementation of the Fig UI to use those specs. There is a lot of knowledge encoded in there!
That's sad but expected. I actually had switched and disabled fig a few days ago because the app was using a lot of resources and probably had some memory leaks and crashed.<p>I find the autocomplete feature useful. I don't trust the GenAI commands even with gh copilot. I really hope that one day we can get a tool that will simulate the consequences of a command on your particular machine/environment but I admit that would be very hard.
Natural language to command line is the kind of functionality people dream about but it seems incredibly dangerous. How can I trust it to do what I intend every time? ChatGPT certainly isn't good enough as I've learned trying to use it on files I thankfully had a backup of.
Is Hyper next? Makes me a bit worried about Pydantic too, and a several other open source dev tools (like ruff, and all HTTP GUI clients) that have taken VC money.
This is at least the second thing call Fig that is shutting down. There was also a video game crowdfunding website called Fig - <a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fig_(company)" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fig_(company)</a>
> CodeWhisperer for command line does not include features similar to Fig Scripts, Dotfiles, Plugins, or Servers and we do not plan to support these features any time soon.<p>It's rare to see this level of honesty and straight-forwardness. Thanks for that.
Who the hell comes up with these words like "sunsetting"? I was working with a dental company and their software we integrated with our system stopped working. I called the company and asked why and they said "We sunset this product". It took me a while to understand what they were saying then they asked for money because they released a new one. Sunsetting was just a fancy word for a money grab.<p>Wouldn't be easier to say we abandon the project or kill it? Does sunset sound fancier?
really enjoyed using fig last year but it was linked to my old company account and now i cant get access as im no longer there. tried to add this amazon implementation but it just seems like an elephant compared to fig. litterally just want the autocomplete power and fuzzy search lookup for branches was so nice. anyone know any anythink lightweight like fig used to be let me know
I am not surprised. I tried to sign up for Fig after the news it is acquired by Amazon, the sign up page in the app is closed.<p>I check the Github issue page and it is stale for several months. Definitely this deal is acquire-hiring and all the Fig workflow will be absorbed to Amazon products.
Hahaha, I knew it. We all knew it.<p>Seeing the aftermath of corporate acquisitions, especially in the tech industry, is always interesting. Over my ten years in the field, I’ve seen three companies go through big changes during and after being acquired. It’s funny how companies try to convince everyone that nothing will change, even though it almost always does. People’s reactions range from hopeful to in denial about the changes.<p>Is it because people are delusional or psychopaths trying to make other people believe their lies.
They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or plugin.<p>Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.