一份在软件工程师中广为流传的“宣言”引发热议，许多人表示它一针见血。据404 Media报道，加密邮箱服务商Proton的首席技术官巴特·巴特勒（Bart Butler）撰写了一篇长达三页、关于编程现状的长文。备忘录解释称，工程师的角色已不再是昔日的模样，公司必须适应人工智能的现状。备忘录写道：“你们的工作已经发生了根本性的变化。它不再是编写代码，大语言模型也不是来帮你们更快地编写更好代码的。你们的工作是帮助大语言模型更快地编写更好的代码。”
There's a sweeping "manifesto" that's making the rounds with software engineers — and many say it's dead on. Proton CTO Bart Butler wrote a three-page sermon on the state of coding, as reported by 404 Media. The memo explains that the role of the engineer is no longer what it once was, and the company must adapt to the state of AI. "Your job has fundamentally changed," the memo reads. "It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster."
Proton没有回应《商业内幕》的置评请求，但此前曾向404 Media表示，“我们在向员工解释时，有时过于直白或不够及时。”
Proton did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, but previously told 404 Media that "we have sometimes been too blunt or too slow in explaining ourselves to our people."
在网上的技术人员中，这份宣言的直白被视为一项特色而非缺陷。OpenAI员工、极其热门的AI智能体OpenClaw的创造者彼得·斯坦伯格（Peter Steinberger）表示，Proton首席执行官安迪·严（Andy Yen）“看清了这一点”。即使未来两年的进展只有我们目前轨迹的一半快，旧的软件工程师工作也已经不复存在了。斯坦伯格写道：“文化之战，或者说随着人工智能重新定义我们的工作，一些工程师所感受到的身份迷失是痛苦的；我对此表示同情。”
Among the techies online, the manifesto's bluntness was a feature, not a bug. Peter Steinberger, an OpenAI employee and creator of the hugely popular OpenClaw AI agent, said that Proton CEO Andy Yen "gets it." This. Even if peogress the next two years is only half as fast as the trajectory we are on now, the old job of software engineer is gone. "The culture war, or rather the loss of identity some engineers feel as AI redefines our jobs is difficult; I sympathize," Steinberger wrote.
他还写道：“同时也要明白，他经营着一家企业，当我们在过去两年里本有时间去消化、学习、改变和成长时，他的耐心可能是有限的。”他预测，如果人工智能在未来两年的进展甚至只有当前发展轨迹的一半快，“旧的软件工程师工作就已经不复存在了”。
"Also understand that he runs a business and might has limited patience when we now had two years to process, learn, change and grow." He predicted that if AI's progress over the next two years is even half as fast as the current trajectory, "the old job of software engineer is gone."
Ruby on Rails的创造者、通常被称为DHH的戴维·海纳梅尔·汉森（David Heinemeier Hansson）写道，任何对该备忘录感到不满的员工都将“随着智能体时代的展开而面临艰难的旅程”。真正的AI精神错乱是认为“这只是又一个工具”或者“它只是一只随机鹦鹉”，以及“人类仍然需要审查每一行代码”。你必须清醒过来了。
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails who's commonly known as DHH, wrote that any employees upset by the memo were "in for a rough ride as the age of agents unfold." The real AI psychosis is thinking "this is just another tool" or "it's just a stochastic parrot" and "humans still need to review every line". You gotta snap out of it.
SpaceX的首席工程师劳伦·谭（Lauren Tan）写道，“哀叹编程时代的逝去早已是过去时了。”谭写道，每个工程师都掌控着一支“极其灵活且有能力的劳动力队伍”。这与备忘录呼应，据报道巴特勒在备忘录中写到，现在每个工程师都是模型和智能体的“团队负责人”。
Lauren Tan, a principal engineer at SpaceX, wrote that "the time for mourning coding is long over." Tan wrote that every engineer wields an "incredibly elastic and capable workforce." That echoes the memo, where Butler reportedly wrote that every engineer is now "a team leader" of models and agents.
其他工程师则重点分享了他们最喜欢的宣言片段，或是引用了他们所谓的“金句”。Plover Labs联合创始人爱德华·安（Edward Ahn）制作了一张各大公司首席执行官关于人工智能的备忘录图表。这些领导者的范围从Shopify到Coinbase再到Block。排在最后的是Proton的巴特勒。安的观点是：“每隔几个月，备忘录就会变得更诚实一点。”
Other engineers highlighted their favorite parts of the manifesto or quoted what they called a "banger." Plover Labs cofounder Edward Ahn made a chart of big CEOs' memos about AI. The leaders ranged from Shopify to Coinbase to Block. At the end was Proton's Butler. Ahn's point: "Every few months the memo gets a little more honest."