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Proton CEO says this will be the last year hiring engineers

Original: Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."

Proton CEO Andy Yen has said the privacy company will stop hiring engineers after this year, in a statement drawing wide attention online. The claim suggests a major shift in how the Swiss firm builds its products, likely toward AI-assisted development, though Yen's full reasoning and the company's concrete plans remain unspecified in the circulating remarks.

Why now: A privacy-focused tech company publicly ending engineering hiring signals a major shift in labor and AI adoption that people find alarming and newsworthy.

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