People are the hard part of AI

Proton's CTO wrote an internal AI manifesto arguing AI is not the death of good engineering and that the next bottlenecks are human steps like design, approvals, specs and code review, but 404 Media reporting describes fear and pushback inside the company, including CEO Andy Yen calling a request to pentest new code "loser thinking." The piece contrasts this with the roughly $6.3 billion Binance crypto theft, which early findings say may have involved a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. It argues leaders must fund retooling company-wide, measure bottlenecks rather than AI line counts, keep security review fast, and make it safe to raise concerns.