Wow, sounds like a threat to nation security. Those Silicon Valley companies shills start donating to select donation campaigns with hope to ban Chinese LLM models.

Can you imagine? Your children being exposed to the propaganda that these LLMs will be inevitably tainted to spew?

Your so called “civilized societies” have continuously failed at this though.

You can’t keep failing and then demand your method is the correct method.

Yeah that wouldn’t fly nowadays. Your friend’s father would be hot with a slew of charges from “terroristic threats” to “meanacing”

So uh, will these ever make it to an auction site you think?

But their customers are enterprises. Until you’re bringing in the money that those enterprise contracts are, you’re a pathetic speck who can and will get what you’re offered and no more.

This country is populated by idiots that do not enjoy or like freedom. These people didn’t just seize power in a coup.

But not if they got bad grades in HS lol?

In my experience HW companies are rarely interested software engineers from other, non-related domains unless they’re hiring a team to do web interface or something.

If only. The optimizations they do on their matching algorithm has made the UX so terrible, I regularly use Lyft instead now.

Aren’t most of the EE jobs in Asia now?

Are the engineering firms going to Chinese labs because of their rubber stamp approval or because the process is “tens of thousands” as opposed to “hundreds of thousands”?

The moment you start doing this at any scale, the companies will notice, and after a few winks, nods, and campaign donations, you will not be able to use it anymore.

I was tinkering since childhood and I was still tired of it pretty quickly. I always knew I do not want to work in software, but where the hell else was I supposed to go?

There was a thread the other day on RF engineering. There were a number comments describing it a “magic” or “sorcery”.

This is kinda how I felt about computers as a kid. I used to wonder about different types of software on my PC. “How does it possibly work”, “How could I make one”. It was this sort of curiosity. Over time, learning how the sausage was made, I just lost interest.

Nowadays I still find myself curious and inquisitive about how things work, just rarely software. Unfortunately most of the “magic” left in the world is a bit beyond my IQ level, such as the aforementioned RF stuff lol.