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Who cares how they made it? Guess this is the German attitude, they got lucky because of their parents. So lets punish them ; )

Anyway there is enough capital and enough rich people to found a company like open AI. Obviously Germany can afford to spend billions on other things...

Wouldn't consider Frank Thelen rich in the sense it is relevant to AI. You need someone with billions and so on. SAP founders for sure. Anyway agree, Germany has quite a few rich people. Although most of them are a bit under the radar or doing virtue signaling. None of them is willing to take huge risks and invest few billions in a robotic company - just don't see it.

The basic problem is obvious, no company in Germany would pay a fresh PhD more than 150k, even 100k would be extremely. So AI talent leaves. But this is not the whole story, the bureaucracy, regulation and so on are insane. Then you have high taxes, and especially everyone wants to tax the rich. The rich are too rich in Germany. So why should Germany try to make them richer lol?

This is obvious. Right, of course you get an increase in productivity, especially as a junior - when current AI is able to solve leetcode.

BUT I think a lot of people mentioned that, you get code - that the person which wrote it do not understand. So the next time you get a bug there, good luck fixing it.

My take so far. AI is great, but only for non critical, non core code. Everything that is done for plotting and scripting is awesome (which can take days to implement and in minutes with AI) - but core lib functions - wouldn't outsource it to the AI right now.