Fig is sunsetting
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Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021:
* some return, even if negligible, for investors and the feeling of having done right by them
* decent hiring bonuses - so, some financial compensation even if the founders' equity was worthless
* reputation: they get to claim a successful exit, whatever the reality (so many founders dispense advice based on "multiple exits" which were all fire sales)
* continued life for the product... although in most cases the product is shut down and the team ends up splitting up and working on the acquirer's existing products
There's also just the psychology of it. After failing to raise the next round, you start a process to find some home for yourselves / your team / your product. Having gone through that process, if you come up with any offers, you're pretty likely to take the best one even if a purely rational analysis would suggest that you'd be better off doing something completely different.
Lots of fun "there will be no changes or interruptions to the service" followed next month with "we have decided to shut down the service" stories https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/658027964213215...
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.
You need the same (and probably more) robust controls in place as you would use for a more junior developer.
A human will be influenced by the potential outcome of any proposed solution. For example they might worry about the impact to their employment status if they are wrong, while an LLM will just spit out an answer that is "most likely correct".
It is corporate speak for we cashed out and the new owners bought us to strip us to parts so they can get what they want out of us (i.e: talent, patent/intellectual propety) while dominating the market and reducing (potential) competition.
It is a feature, not a bug for the shareholders.
Capitalism working as intended.
I have a good setup here that you can learn from - https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles
> We have several exciting new CodeWhisperer for command line features coming in 2024 including support for Linux
It's rare to see this level of honesty and straight-forwardness. Thanks for that.
Wouldn't be easier to say we abandon the project or kill it? Does sunset sound fancier?
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.
And was this autocomplete server based or happened locally and privately?
The core server was local, its two most used features were directory, and CLI arguments autocomplete.
E.g
aws s3 ls s3://<magic…>
Also brief documentation of any arguments or flags for the command you are typing.
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.
Is it because people are delusional or psychopaths trying to make other people believe their lies.
Dunno how any dev could rely on some SaaS pay2win autocomplete or the SaaS batch job processor stuff they sold.
Or rely on these kind of companies in the first place.
I mean, sure, pad your resume by making your employer use Best Practice SaaS products, but using Fig seem to be a "don't shit where you eat", messing with your workflow.
edit: Heh reading some launch thread from 3 years ago is hillarous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222277
I wonder how many of the yay sayers were shills?
Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.
It sucks, but to build certain things, you sometimes need money. $2.2M isn't a ton – they raised in 2020, so that's roughly only (market) salaries for 3 people for those 3 years.
Not everything will work out. But good on Fig for trying, and good on Fig for finding a solution that (hopefully?) did right by themselves and their team, and good on them for leaving Fig open-sourced.
(And to the Fig-ians reading this, congrats :) )
Yeah, they probably spent less than that (esp the founders salaries), but my point is that $2.2M isn't as much money as it seems.