alt Hacker NewsBrilliant piece of content marketing:
1) Pulls you in with a catchy title, that at first glance seems like a dunk on Cal.com (whatever that is).
2) Takes the "we understand your pain" approach to empathize w/ Cal.com, so you feel like you're on the good vibes side.
3) Provides a genuine response to the actual problem Cal.com is dealing with. Something you can't dismiss out of hand.
4) But in the end of the day, the response aligns perfectly with the product they're promoting (a click away to the homepage!)
This mix of genuine ideas and marketing is quite potent. Not saying this is all bad or anything, just found it a bit funny. The mixed-up-ness is the point!
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I'm sad to see this article being so upvoted while being kind of empty.
The real content could fit in a comment.
Is it good marketing though? I mean personally I do not use AI, and I don't think this opinion of mine will change. I can't look into the future, but right now I don't use nor do I depend on AI. I guess it may work for some people, but even then I am unsure whether that is really good marketing. Riding on a hype train (which AI right now still is) is indeed easier, so that has to be considered.
That's exactly how this read to me too. Ultimately, the whole article is written by a company that does AI vulnerability scanning, and it's to try and get you to sign up for their service.
As it mentions in their article, Strix actually scans the Cal.com codebase and reports vulnerabilities to us. But the reality is, they actually miss so many vulnerabilities that other platforms do find. There's no one platform that seems to be able to reliably find all vulnerabilities, and so simply adopting AI scanners just isn't enough.