Longtime Proton user and advocate Raed667 expresses concern following a 404 Media investigation revealing CEO Andy Yen's response to an engineer requesting days for pentesting new code before release, calling it "bullshit and loser thinking" and urging staff to stop "lovingly handcrafting code" in favor of AI. The author argues the issue is not AI adoption itself—now an industry norm—but the dismissal of security guardrails: code review, testing, and accountability. Reports indicate AI usage was initially tied to job retention, a policy later dropped but described by Yen as having "served its purpose." The author contends Proton's value proposition as a privacy company rests on careful, slow shipping; a mail-exposing bug would be fatal, unlike typical B2B failures. An employee's Reddit defense—that Yen supports pentesting provided it doesn't slow the pipeline—is characterized as astroturfing that reinforces leadership's prioritization of velocity over the caution users pay for. The author concludes that continued recommendation depends on whether engineers advocating thorough testing can prevail against leadership obsessed with arbitrary release dates.