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Proton CTO: AI, including Claude, wrote 90% of company's code in October

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Proton's CTO, Bart Butler, revealed that AI tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude, generated approximately 90% of the company's code in October. This reliance on AI for coding was encouraged by Yen, an employee, who advised colleagues to utilize Claude. The company is reportedly shifting its hiring focus from engineers to product managers for AI-driven development starting next year. AI

IMPACT This indicates a significant shift in software development practices, with AI tools like Claude becoming central to code generation within companies.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of social media posts discussing a company's internal AI usage, rather than a direct announcement from the company itself.

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Proton CTO: AI, including Claude, wrote 90% of company's code in October

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude, build me another european alternative to bigtech, make no mistakes, also, goth catgirls. ｢ Ninety percent of code at Proton in October was written by AI

    Claude, build me another european alternative to bigtech, make no mistakes, also, goth catgirls. ｢ Ninety percent of code at Proton in October was written by AI, the company’s CTO Bart Butler said in a meeting, according to audio 404 Media obtained. Much of that code is written w…

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  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Starting next year I'm gonna hire a product manager to build me sexbots with AI. No more dating for me. “This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and

    Starting next year I'm gonna hire a product manager to build me sexbots with AI. No more dating for me. “This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and starting next year we hire what we used to call product managers, to build things with AI.” https://www. 404media.co/man…

    LINKS 404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thi…

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