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People are too hard on Proton
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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If you want to disavow every piece of tech using AI then good luck to you. You’d have to say goodbye to Linux and FreeBSD for starters, so you literally won’t have an operating system.
As a consumer, it is my right to vote with my wallet.
I do not like this big AI push across all markets, and I am concerned about the long term consequences of AI usage.
Sure, AIs can write code, but unless we're going to implicitly trust the output of a machine that is going to hallucinate at some point. The reason why computers name so important across the board is because they're repeatable. You give a computer program the same inputs, you'll always get the same outputs.
AI doesn't have that consistency. It's been shown that hallucinations are a mathematical certainty, so someone has to be able to read and understand the output of an AI.
But if we're no longer hiring entry level positions for writing code, opting instead to have AI be the junior developer, then we will run out of people who can check the work of an AI.
I will not support a company that can't see the long term security implications of relying on AI to write anything at all, and the CEOs comments about 'fast and secure' tell me that he doesn't care about those implications.
Mark my words, companies that become too reliant on AI will suffer from their AI usage. When another company owns the expertise you need to run your business, they'll make sure you're paying as much as possible for it. Because they have what you need.