Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

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.”

  • Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I love how that article lists off, ironically, Proton as first. Then it goes on to list Outlook which is as bad as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail is a joke.

    Like, why not focus on alternatives that people ideally want from mail services? Not more of the same troublesome shit.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, it was funny. Especially as the search I did that got this article specifically said “free alternatives to Gmail and proton”. But all the articles I reviewed had Proton as one of the top options.