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Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning (www.404media.co)

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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.”

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[–] BrilliantBadger@piefed.ca 28 points 1 day ago

Ah, yes, once again the old adage "When they show you they are, believe them" has proved it never fails.

A happy Proton paying customer, I bailed within a week when Andy made his pro GOP/trump comments some time back.

Folks said I over reacted. I handed them that adage. It was right.

Protons top "loser" engineers will find themselves welcomed elsewhere. What a disaster Proton has become under Yen.