hey [@davidgerard](https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard ) remember when we caught Proton committing their CLAUDE.md and claude skills to proton’s codebase, then they covered it up in real time with forcepushes but the files remained in a bunch of forks? then proton denied using claude so of course their fans believed them instead of the evidence of their eyes? well of course:
> Initially, using AI was banned inside Proton, but the company has since approved AI for all sorts of use cases internally, including processing financial data, drafting customer-facing responses on Reddit and LinkedIn, and writing code […] 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 with Anthropic’s Claude, multiple employees told 404 Media. And Yen tells employees in Slack chats to use Claude, too.
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