b4 Xi Jiping conquers me.
Because China has been so aggressive? Wtf lol
VLC: I know that and I love you
How do you suggest they get paid? There's a massive issue with most foss devs and maintainers being unpaid and burnt out while their work is used by corpos and more often than not they don't receive a dime
than what an AI or cheap programmers from places like India or China could do.
People abroad making less money has more to do with the cost of living, different regulations and so on, not necessarily skill. I'm a mid developer with years of professional experience and my salary is shit for US standards, but it allows me to live okayish here, so that's why we put up with it. Immigrants also often face a precarious position (such as a visa status being tied to their work, or prosecution by the authorities, or not being part of a union in an otherwise unionized industry, etc), so them getting paid badly is, again, not always related to skill. I've met Arab doctors who are cab drivers in Europe.
That doesn't address the climate or jobs question though, both require organizing
Unfortunately both parties share the same donors who benefit from this, and getting momentum on a third party under a bipartisan system takes a lot of time and effort
Yeah, if it weren't for organizations adapting all their workflows and processes to involve as much LLM as possible it probably wouldn't be as costly to eventually switch back to minimizing its usage to specific, more useful stuff (like debugging)
Yeah they're particularly bad with games (like responding the wrong question) and scholarship
So it's almost like there's a tendency for the rate of profit to fall
I add a query parameter to go to web search, rather than the default search, so no slop here
I didn't say it was the sole reason, rather that it is measurable and clear as day (look at the difference in the number of voters between the last two US presidential elections). You don't need foreign actors to explain why democrat voters didn't bother to show up.