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  • I just helped a product manager friend host and run their app on a VPS.

    It was a single file app.py flask app with over 10,000 lines of code. It had html and css defined as variables in that single file!

    I am sure this is gonna end well.

    by scottydelta
  • This statement may end up true, but not for the reason he thinks.
    by MrMorden
  • > “Due to insufficient velocity,” Proton is not on track to achieve its annual recurring revenue target by the end of the year, one internal document...

    Ummm, maybe I am crazy but I don't want the main metric for my privacy-first email provider to be ARR. How about security and privacy guarantees? How about bugs fixed? How about lowering the supply chain risk for the company? I care about a lot more than your ARR.

    > That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure

    > 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.”

    I'm on the Proton "visionary" plan ($280/year) for my family. I'm more than happy to switch. Anyone have a suggestion as to where to re-home our email? I'm using custom domains for ~3 domains and control 3 people's email.

    by bitbasher
  • > CEO Andy Yen wrote it to staff in Slack: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers." Starting next year, he said, Proton hires product managers to build things with AI.

    That won't age well in the long term, especially and for a company that deals with security. Here's what Proton just did:

    Rather than equipping more of your technical staff with AI to compete against the competition, they are dismissing them over it and not hiring anymore engineers on technical defense. Not only the competition has AI agents as well, the malicious attackers also do and will overwhelm Proton with swarms of them, non-stop with less staff.

    This will be the beginning of the end of Proton as there will be no-one ready to defend the company when millions of abliterated frontier-level AI agents attack them at 25,000 tokens per second.

    That isn't a secure future for Proton.

    by rvz
  • If they can vibe code the project without engineering then surely their users can too, right? I currently pay for Proton Pass but when mine renews next year I'd rather just give the money to Opus 6.5.
    by drewbitt
  • Instead of just reading a tweet that includes quote from an article, read the full article at https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-i...

    Full archived / paywall free copy is at https://web.archive.org/web/20261029143048/https://www.404me...

    by CqtGLRGcukpy
  • So many thread replies are saying they are cancelling both their email and VPN accounts lol! Self-destructive tendencies all these hallucinated CEOs!
    by stefanos82
  • Thanks for the heads up, Andy! I’ll find a new email and vpn provider. It was a good 7 years, admittedly.
    by mfro

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