> I'm not saying this email client is not secure (although I'd bet 5$, it is). But it seems beyond silly to assume software is automatically safe just because a new piece of tech can potentially find vulnerabilities. Intent still matters. And the 99% would never have the intent to write secure software.

Hard agree, especially the apparent 99% of AI boosters on HN who seem to basically only care about shipping arbitrary products as fast as possible and skipping the whole middle part where someone sweaty person is grinding through the details intimately, all day, and while they should be sleeping.

At my last place, it was a battle to convince the narcissistic idiot CTO and even one of our senior engineers (both in age and experience) that it was important to encrypt customer data before it transited through third-party cloud service providers. People don't—and aren't incentivized—to give the slightest shit about quality, security, you name it.