hirihit640 comments on Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't think Andy Yen was saying that slower = worse, or that faster is all that matters. My read of the conversation is that engineers were pushing against AI saying that it makes code less secure and maintainable, and Andy was pushing back saying that's not necessarily the case, that it's possible to use AI to speed things up while maintaining quality.

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[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

In one exchange, an employee in the company’s security Slack channel urged Proton 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.” Yen added, “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

There was a Lemmy post about a Proton employee providing more context for Andy's statements: https://no.lastname.nz/post/4106893

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[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good thing he apologised, yet it still looks that the c-suit still mostly concerned with speed. Apologizing for shitty behaviour is still worse than not being shitty in the first place.

FYI, I don't think this situation is cause enough to ditch Proton, but I still stand by my original comment.

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