Proton CEO calls security pentest requests 'loser thinking' in AI push
steipete · x · 2026-10-30
404 Media reports internal conflict at Proton over its aggressive AI push. CEO Andy Yen responded to an employee urging pentesting of AI-written code before release with "that's bullshit and loser thinking," telling the team to "stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." Yen set up an internal email to "ruthlessly smash everything that stands in the way of AI velocity," and the company installed monitoring software on employee machines — raising security concerns at a company famous for encrypted, privacy-focused products.
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