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Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning (www.404media.co)
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[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 257 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, had a message for an employee in the company’s security Slack channel who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.”

In a follow-up message, Yen reiterated his point: “only losers think like that.” His ultimate message for the team was to “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

This sounds like the most insecure loser statement I've ever heard. Andy Yen and the rest of the Proton Execs seem to have fully bought into the man-o-sphere in the same way that every basement incel has.

[–] U1F972@programming.dev 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate winner mentality. Competition is an artifact left over from our evolution and society has historically reinforced it because it resulted in better outcomes for the in group to the detriment of the whole. Eventually we've reached a point where people can compete against each other on unimportant things for no reason other than competing, which was also celebrated as a spectacle. Now we're at the point where people are applying the same "competition for competition's sake" attitude to things that do matter even to the detriment of the in group and themselves. And it is still celebrated because competition and winning has such a strong association with betterment in our culture. We will not improve as a society until we start viewing the desire to win as antisocial behavior.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

It's a spectacle.

Well formulated! Those managers probably have a gene thinking "if I'm better, then it's I who will get laid" or something.

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