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Proton To ‘Re-Interview’ Staff About AI To See Who Gets To Keep Their Job (www.404media.co)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2533091/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    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...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I fear you may misunderstand their goal here- direct quote:

    “We need people who can translate AI’s capabilities into better products, stronger execution, and new ways of working — and who approach this change with curiosity, judgment, and urgency,” the email reads.

    They specifically want to "weed out" the ones who ARE NOT using AI

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