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Fig is sunsetting
- ProwlDev 3y agoreally 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
- Cilvic 3y agoAre there alternatives to fig for linux? Seems like amazon code whisperer is macos only.
- killthebuddha 3y agoNot a direct answer to your question but > We have several exciting new CodeWhisperer for command line features coming in 2024 including support for Linux
- gillh 3y agoCombination of zsh completions with fzf picker and gh copilot for CLIs. I have a good setup here that you can learn from - https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles
- Hammershaft 3y agoNot explicitly what you're asking for but fish shell gets you a long way into what fig was offering for usability improvements, but without being a closed source SAAS cloud app laden with telemetry.
- adhamsalama 3y agoZsh + powerlevel10k + zsh autocomplete
- fellowmartian 3y agoMany people suggesting zsh, but if you’re willing to move to fish you’ll get many features out of the box.
- LASR 3y agoI am curious from someone who uses fig every day - what’s the rundown on its value?
- dr_petes 3y agoAutocomplete for CLI apps, gui for directory changes, just quality of life things.
- nottorp 3y agoHmm I'm curious. What does "gui" mean? It yanked you out of the command line in a browser or finder? And was this autocomplete server based or happened locally and privately?
- Lalabadie 3y agoIt added a correctly positioned autocomplete list in front of the cursor in almost any terminal app. The core server was local, its two most used features were directory, and CLI arguments autocomplete.
- Lalabadie 3y agoI am/was a daily user. To me it was just very good autocomplete on terminal/CLI commands.
- dtjohnnymonkey 3y agoAutocomplete of S3 buckets. E.g aws s3 ls s3://<magic…> Also brief documentation of any arguments or flags for the command you are typing.
- radicaldreamer 3y agoAn interesting pivot but I guess helping devs sync on multiple computers was never going to be a big market.
- twp 3y agoTrue. There's https://chezmoi.io/ https://chezmoi.io/ for this, but no commercial market for it.
- pvg 3y agoThe related acquisition thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401 Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819
- rapind 3y agoIt’s so interesting to see the full circle of acquisition PR.
- woah 3y agoNice. These guys started up, cashed in, sold out, and bro'd down all in the span of three years.
- cushychicken 3y agoYou’d be a lot less snarky if it was you getting rich.
- benzible 3y ago"Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology!" does not have the ring of "getting rich". Seems like acquihire + asset sale, quite possibly for a negligible price, and with liquidation preferences common stock is likely worthless. Not enough information to say for certain but deals along these lines are far more common than meaningful exits.
- NotMichaelBay 3y agoWhy would they sell if it's for a negligible price? Seems like a pretty terrible deal if all they get out of it is to work at Amazon.
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- masto 3y agoApparently Fig was a terminal enhancement that provided a fancy autocomplete system.
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- rmorey 3y agoHaving 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: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete. 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!
- mschrage 3y agoThe open-source project will continue to be maintained! The open-source autocomplete specs are used by the CodeWhisperer CLI and will be for the foreseeable future.
- prometheon1 3y agowithfig/autocomplete is also used by other projects, who might be in a position to fork if something happens. The ones I know of are: - https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense - https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp
- rmorey 3y agooh thank you for sharing this! I knew about warp but didn't realize it was using the autocomplete specs
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- meling 3y agoRead about codewisperer just now (linked from this article). Anyone know how it compares to the warp terminal’s AI features?
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- causality0 3y agoNatural 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.
- rok3 3y agoYou can't trust it. 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".
- akaike 3y agoWell, who would thought, acquired a few months ago and poof
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- FractalHQ 3y agoFig was one of the first dev tools that I have been so happy to be able to use every day and would gladly pay for. I’m very sad about this.
- guessmyname 3y agoHahaha, I knew it. We all knew it. 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.
- whalesalad 3y agohttps://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-monkeys-experiment/ https://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-mo...
- trealira 3y agoI may be dense, but I don't see how Fig fits into the analogy of the five monkeys getting sprayed by icy water.
- rightbyte 3y ago> Is it because people are delusional 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222277 I wonder how many of the yay sayers were shills?
- bluish29 3y agoThat'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. 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.
- makmanalp 3y agoAnyone have experience with any options for something that's not run by Amazon?
- rmdashrfv 3y agoThey 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. Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.
- gkoberger 3y agoAt $2.2M in funding, they are (likely) on a SAFE. There's no board, meaning no real VC pressure. They used that money to build... it's not like they were a beloved, widely used developer tool ruined by VC money. 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 :) )
- rmdashrfv 3y agoYeah you're probably right about there not being any pressure. the 2.2M was a seed round. 2.2M is a lot for 3 people salaries for 3 years in my opinion
- gkoberger 3y agoWith taxes, office space, laptops, offsites, insurance, etc a rough rule of thumb is $250k for an engineer. $250k * 3 = $750k, and over 3 years that's $2.25M (doesn't include software, hosting, lawyers, contractors, marketing, etc). 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.
- bananapub 3y agowhen will you, personally, learn to not to bother getting invested in products made by people trying to sell their company to a FAANGM?
- beretguy 3y agoSunsetting before I even knew about it.
- starshadowx2 3y agoThis is at least the second thing call Fig that is shutting down. There was also a video game crowdfunding website called Fig - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fig_(company) https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fig_(company)
- zaps 3y agoAlso docker compose before it became docker compose https://orchardup.github.io/fig.sh/ https://orchardup.github.io/fig.sh/
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- kunley 3y agoFunny how "sunsetting" became a politically correct newspeak for "failed"
- Alifatisk 3y agoDid it really fail though?
- mrd3v0 3y agoIt is not political nor failure. 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.
- ivanjermakov 3y agoBeing acquired by Amazon has nothing of "failed" in my book.
- wslh 3y agoIn the YC book it failed for sure. Startups are not "lifestyle business" in the YC definition.
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoI don’t care
- lepetitchef 3y agoI 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. 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.
- JayPalm 3y agoIs 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.
- system2 3y agoWho 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. Wouldn't be easier to say we abandon the project or kill it? Does sunset sound fancier?
- nsonha 3y agowhat a shocking news
- solarkraft 3y ago> 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. It's rare to see this level of honesty and straight-forwardness. Thanks for that.