This is not the death of expertise. The LLM is fast. You are slow, but you carry with you a lifetime of experience, judgment calls, and understanding. You are also (hopefully) much less prone to hallucination and being mislead by bad or malicious inputs, and are accountable to yourself, your teammates, and to Proton in a way a model can never be. Together you can do far more, far faster than either can do alone.

Just one teeny tiny question, sir. Who tf is going to train your “IA” if no one learns to code because “IA” does “everything by itself”?

Fine, you want to go only by seniors who already knows how to write good code, cut the juniors. Then what? Just hope that “IA” is smart enough (spoiler: it won’t) to never need any kind of correction or fixing? And just for what? Going “faster”?

You can always go fast, but you really shouldn’t. Unless you want to crash faster I guess.

If you’re looking for an email service that isn’t written with AI, I made one:

https://port87.com/2026/10/we-dont-use-ai/

“AI needs to be able to work autonomously and continuously with less and less human babysitting. Your job is to identify problems that the LLM cannot solve on its own and help them not only solve them this time but be able to better solve them next time, not just for you but for everyone: repository-level context files, shared skills and prompts, and habit of ensuring that repeated failures trigger an investigation and a fix. Your job is to push the limits of what the LLM can do autonomously, step in for the things that it cannot, and always think of how you can improve the status quo.”

Forgot to add “so that we can fire you in a couple of years.” to the end.

CTO too.

Well, they just have AI Psychosis. Seems like a straightforward case.

Ugh. Got another year on my prepaid plan. When I’ve tried making changes in the past they only ever offered credit for the unused time instead of a refund.

Okay, so who has unlimited custom domain email aliases other than Proton? Having recently just set up a hundred or more of these suckers I’d have need of taking them with me.

This asshole has no clue. Migrating is always a pain, but I’m glad I’m no longer vulnerable to his stupidity harming me directly.

Time to de-proton

Quick: someone make a feature request to fire the loser who wrote this article

Soo stupid, their business model is reliant on people that move out of a free service based on principle.

The real tell here is when Yen berated an engineer who voiced concerns about security, saying “stop finding ways to be slow, start finding ways to be faster”. He’s a C-suite baby who wants what he wants RIGHT NOW!

When the suits start acting like engineers who care about best practices are being obstacles instead of valuable stewards of quality, you know you’re dealing with losers who can’t be trusted to not run things into the ground. Any walking back that Yen does now, you know he’s just biding his time to ride out the kerfuffle, and he’s just going to low-key abuse his employees at a slightly slower pace, but he’s going to get what he wants.

Canceled my sub, moved my mail.

I genuinely wonder what these executives have in their mind.

What do they think? That engineers are good enough for being hired but not good enough to decide which tools to use?

If I hire a plumber and I tell them what tool to use, the plumber would either comply and do a bad job or will tell me to get lost.

Why do they think this is different?

Do some engineers like LLM? Sure! And let it be Do some engineers don’t like LLM? Yes… and let it be.

If these tools are so miraculous the engineers that use them will provide such good results that will naturally prevail.

Why the executives need to thumb the scale?

I highly suggest Thundermail (tb.pro) if you wanna switch to a libre email provider. Mozilla hosts stalwart and their own libre mail client for you, along with providing 15 mail aliases and 3 custom domains, for a small price. I have been using it as my daily since past few months. I haven’t found any bugs despite it being in beta.

I had kept my mail account around just as an alternate for cutting down on spam to my main, but this was a good excuse to dump it. No need to enable the fash anymore.

The first is a change in engineering culture and engineer mentality. Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.

Emphasis theirs 🤮