Proton's AI manifesto for software engineering

Proton published an internal engineering manifesto arguing that writing code manually is a skill whose time has passed, and that engineers' job is now to help LLMs write better code faster, acting as managers of autonomous models and agents. It says Proton is stuck at phase 1 (using LLMs to speed up existing workflows) and must move to phase 2 by holistically eliminating bottlenecks across the software development lifecycle, while acknowledging a collective action problem in retooling the whole company. The memo states that "programming" is dead but engineering and expertise are not, and that Proton will organize and resource the critical investments needed for the transition.