I’ve been paying for Proton for many years, and it’s what I recommend when someone asks how to get off Gmail. This week 404 Media published an investigation into how Proton’s leadership is pushing AI inside the company. The detail that made the rounds came from the security Slack channel: an engineer asked for a few days to pentest new code before shipping it, and CEO Andy Yen answered that it was “bullshit and loser thinking”, then told the team to stop lovingly handcrafting code and use AI more.
A lot of the reactions treat this as an AI story, as if any AI-written code poisons the well, and I think that misses the point. Engineers using AI to write code is the new norm. It’s fine as long as there are guardrails around it: someone reviews what the model produced, it gets tested, and someone is accountable for what ships.
