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If you read the Proton response to this article, it actually does seem like trying to figure out what's going on with business process in a big picture way. Senior managers are interviewing, too. Not all staff are interviewing.
Personally, I think it's just as much about seeing who can't QC the slop out off their code as anything else. Maybe. Or maybe I'm wrong, I dunno.
Imagine still carrying water for a corporation.
Imagine being so disillusioned with the world that you assume that no one can have an opinion and think critically about two opposing views without it necessarily being some corporate brand fanboy bullshit.
Here, let me help you. Proton doesn't give a fuck about you.
Yeah, was that supposed to be profound or something?
As the 1% that actually pays, I'm invested in them succeeding and not enshittifying so I don't have to take the time to move my email hosting. End of story. I have my own email domain, so I can kick them to the curb any day I like. And expect to have to one day.
Did you need to complain about it some more? Does baby need a Binky? Or did you only ever use the free thing and it didn't meet your expectations of what free things should be? Sorry your free thing wasn't spectacular enough :(
Knew it!
Knew what? That someone doesn't want the thing they pay for to get enshittified? That it's smart to make plans to not let any company control how you communicate?
Wow. Such insight.
That you were a paying customer hence your rabid defense of a garbage company. Every time I get massive pushback it is always someone that has bought into the security theatre corporate solution that they sell.
I am sorry you continue to give them money. Take care!
Rabid? Defense?
Do you even English? Where's the rabid defense, exactly? Show me the exact words.
You think this is the first time Proton has fucked up?
It is clear you are very aggressive hence the rabid part and your post was definitely in defense. Imagine someone a corporation does not give a fuck about paying them money and defending them (carrying their water)
That is how English works. Cheers!
I asked you to show evidence of my "rabid support." Which you avoided because you can't pull it off.
Either show me some objectively "rabid support" in my own comments above, or go get therapy because you're a pretty lousy internet troll, which something that only covers greater insecurity anyway.
Now it's rabid support!? Can't even keep it consistent.
You said it first.
Are you an 3B chatbot running on an old phone in a server farm in China? Even a 27B model would do better at retaining information across the conversation.
Considering you can't tell the difference between words, I would say this is probably some serious projection.
Aren't they a foundation?
No, they have a for profit company and a nonprofit entity that is a major shareholder. They operate just like a corporation with all the typical warts.
Yuck, they really make it seem like they are just a non profit.
They are definitely gross, but so is every corporation. The real lesson is stop giving companies money.
I for one am not sticking around to find out.
How about don't use AI to begin with so you won't have to weed anyone out due to "potential slop".
Edit: this is in response to the parent comment, not to Proton...
I fear you may misunderstand their goal here- direct quote:
They specifically want to "weed out" the ones who ARE NOT using AI
Welp, even worse. Fuck em.
NOW we agree. Fuck em hard.
If you haven't used it professionally, LLMs can and do provide huge help. Making this a specially all or nothing argument only highlights a knowledge and experience gap on the part of someone making that argument.
Buuuuut, only an idiot asks for anything better than a starting point or a check of existing work. People relying on it to produce whole cloth work is for hobbyists and sloppers that don't care or know any better.
You ask why they need to use LLMs at all, and they host their own, Lumo. What clear, financially solid argument can you make that LLMs are an objective net negative to every company? If they see benefits from a headstart on coding and ability to test their security, why demand they take that away when no human code is 100% perfect anyway?
I haven't used it professionally, but I still know they provide huge help. It's no secret. But my statement was simply following the logic of the previous commenter, who was saying that Proton are trying to weed out the people who aren't able to QC out the slop. But if you are in need of QC to remove the slop, you are probably overdosing on agentic coding to begin with.
Anyway, "only an idiot asks for anything better than a starting point", sure, definitely agree. But what percentage of being a professional developer at a company involves prototyping something new, and doing "starting points"? Most development is just tacking on new shit to old shit. Clamping shit together with other shit. I guess that's the issue?, which causes people to still use AI because they are pretty much forced to, sometimes literally, and so actually do ask for more than just a starting point. And then here we are...
I'm coming back to this only because a relevant post came up elsewhere on Lemmy that's maybe worth both of us seeing in the context of our own opinions.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/70048157
I saw that, yeah. Very interesting read, I thought.
I left this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/26596342