Bullish Andy
Steinberger tries to hold both truths at once — empathy for engineers whose professional identity is eroding, and understanding for a CEO who treats hesitation as a luxury. That's a more balanced read than most takes in this debate, though the "two years to adapt" framing is a bit glib: rebuilding one's craft takes longer than a news cycle, and economic pressure doesn't actually accelerate learning.… more
The interesting question is what happens when leaders like Yen run out of patience entirely — the split between AI-native engineers and everyone else may harden into a real hiring divide, not just another discourse skirmish.
Bullish on Andy Yen and Proton. He gets it.
The culture war, or rather the loss of identity some engineers feel as AI redefines our jobs is difficult; I sympathize. Also understand that he runs a business and might has limited patience when we now had two years to process, learn, change and grow.
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X — Peter Steinberger
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