Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
404 Media spoke to eight current and one former Proton employees and reviewed internal chats, meeting recordings and a CTO manifesto. It reports CEO Andy Yen aggressively pushing AI use, with 90% of Proton code said to be AI-written in October, and staff being re-interviewed about AI use with jobs potentially at stake. That matters because Proton sells itself on privacy and security, so a speed-first internal AI push raises direct questions about how carefully its security products are built.
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- Hacker News (AI)2026-10-29 14:29
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