I'm not a security professional, certainly not an expert, but I do know an a-hole when I see one. I don't need every company I spend money with to be all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows 24/7, but I will not give money to someone I actively despise. I despise Yen, and I switched VPNs yesterday specifically to deny that asshole any more of my money.

I found out about Proton yesterday, reading much of the article (the rest was behind a paywall), and it is absolutely gut-wrenching. I have been a loyal, paying customer of theirs for years now, and have recommended their services to people when the opportunity arose. GenAI is poison, once it comes out that even for a while they used it to develop their applications and services without anywhere close to enough human oversight, it casts doubt about the security and privacy they have promised all these years.
I could live with them using AI to help streamline some of the more boring and repetitive tasks in programming, not happy about it, but I could live with it. But if genAI becomes the main driver of programming with barely any human oversight, if any at all, I can not reconcile that with the Proton as it has presented itself thus far. GenAI is anathema to what I have valued about Proton, and I sincerely hope the backlash grows such that Andy Yen has to either reverse course or is outright removed from his position for this. If there is anyone displaying "loser thinking" here, it's him and his fellow executives pushing for this.