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How will Proton navigate the AI transition? Read the internal memo by Proton CTO Bart Butler.

  • I didn’t expected this kind of thing to show up today.

  • I don’t want to use a vibecode slop that isnt tested by real humans.

  • I just want a secure and privacy respecting email not ai slop.

  • Good Bye Proton I am Not Happy With You

Any Suggestion ?

  • I want drive and calender support
  • Made by humans not slop machine.
  • FOSS
  • May Be a Linux Client Support
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    581·
    18 hours ago

    This is not about chasing trends — we are being left behind here, and it is an existential threat to the success of the mission itself.

    It’s wild to see how everyone successfully clocked crypto as a scam but then immediately applied the same “NGMI” FOMO mindset to the next scam.

    Don’t get me wrong. LLMs are useful for several important software engineering functions: prototyping, iterating on implementations, collecting supplementary data, lining up disjoint interfaces… but it makes a terrible foundation, and it can’t refactor beyond a 101 level.

    The only reason the industry is able to pretend that synthetic text extrusion is a sustainable replacement for granular human discernment is because most of our economy is just about building a marketable scam and leaving someone else to hold the bag. If company decision-makers knew they might face any consequences at all for steering the ship into a tar pit, this mass psychosis would not be possible.

    Edit:

    Also, this…

    LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.

    …is precisely Cory Doctorow’s point about reverse centaurs, and the difference between labor and capital when it comes to deploying new tools. I don’t think they even realize they’re putting the quiet part in bold.

    • pilotcoder@lemmy.world
      18·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t even get what “left behind” even really means here? It’s not like they’re at the cutting edge of some winner takes all race, they’re building already established tech (email, cloud storage, etc.) based on a specific ideology (privacy), and all they already have enough momentum and brand recognition to just continue riding the current privacy-tech wave. I just don’t get why they felt the need to rock the boat with drama like this. This whole saga just reads too much like VC backed “move fast and break things” mindset which would put a sizeable chunk of their core customer base off the product

      • underisk@lemmy.ml
        4·
        4 hours ago

        Profit must always increase at an exponential rate or your company is a failure. Sustainability is death to these psychos.