It's a useful tool for his foreign propaganda, but he knows that if TikTok goes dark it's a political disaster. Xi's using this as leverage to get concessions in other areas. Let's see what Trump is willing to give up to keep TikTok alive. If a deal isn't signed he'll likely postpone this until after midterm

Use AI to create unit tests if you want to vibe code properly. Whatever you do with junior engineers you need to do with AI

That's a common narrative. However, it's not too hard to be a shareholder. If you believe in a company just be a shareholder and be part of the gravy train rather than checking out life and blame everyone else. Not saying that there isn't systemic problem that's screwing GenZ, but millennials used to say the same thing until they got rich

LLM is about as reliable as an average new grad. You still need code review and unit testing. The real problem with LLM replacing workers is that in a few decades we'll run out of the experienced engineers to do the code review. Maybe LLMs will be better at that point. For now, definitely use LLM to help add more unit testing.

If you find yourself doing repetitive things every day that's AI can almost do, it's time to look for another career.

LLM is genAI

Especially when you already suffered brain drain

Working hard means working hard starting at age 6. You don't just go to school to have fun and be popular and make fun of nerds. If you cheat your way through school or barely graduate you'll likely suffer in the age of AI. There's still hope though. Get into trade. Get 2 jobs. Learn personal finances. Start a business. If immigrants with no education can achieve American dreams there's no reason people born here can't.

You're still salty about the IT bodyshop abuses back in the day. Nowadays the outsourcing bodyshops only account for about 20% of the quota due to penalties: https://www.epi.org/blog/tech-... US higher education graduation has been steadily increasing (from about 2M a year in early 2000s to 3M now). About a quarter million leave the country after graduation. Some of the remaining will need H1-B to stay in the country. It is in our best interest to retain the best from masters and Phd programs. The mediocre American new grads that cheated their way through school are the collateral damage but we need the fresh talents to keep our technical prowess. It's fashionable to blame H1-B on /. but the data doesn't show that recent new grad unemployment is caused by the visas. H1-B visa in the last 5-6 years have been about the same as previous years if you average out with the huge dip in 2020 and 2021. The truth is that during pandemic there was over-hiring and a lot of companies had a correction which creates a bear market for new grad jobs. Experience talents are still in high demand due to AI, etc.

The problem is that to maintain steady state you need fertility rate of 2.1 per woman and we're no where near that. On the other hand, developing countries are the ones that are carrying the torch for pushing out babies. So as a country, either we open up for immigration or we need to have more babies.

This is bad because social safety net programs rely on the younger generation to support the old. It's also bad because our Keynesian economy requires growth and we don't know how to deal with a shrinking economy

All he knows is that China wants it, we're banning it and I'll unban it for the right price.

and super well connected

*censor

This problem has long been solved by the Chinese. Take a lesson from Deepseek. Have another layer that erases output and repeat if output triggers sensor.