And could potentially be replaced with anything. For those who hate themselves:

cp /sbin/nologin /bin/sh

Rather, it gets /bin/sh, if that is a different shell than the Bourne Shell, it gets whatever that file is. On some systems that is the Bourne Shell, but on others, it’s bash.

Rest of the quote:

“When things are really confused and not well organized and people are running around like heads with their chickens cut off, that’s when you need to kind of do something, and be a kind of firm hand on it, and do the work that needs to be done.”

Value would come in a collaborator, AI as a feed back loop between equals, or as some type of merge. Complimentary to my weaknesses, amplifier to my strengths.

Having agents, assistants, and advisors in addition would be fine. But an agent is just automation, an assistant is a Palm Pilot, an advisor is fancy search.

4) They have been focusing only on creating large models, and have avoided taking time, energy, talent, and money to build apps on it.

5) They open sources to get the global community to aid in the advancement.

3) They didn’t hire Western AI people or send people to the West for education, also unlike their competitors, they hired enthusiastic young people with no knowledge and experience and basically just had them start doing things to learn as they go.

2) In 2021, they bought 10000 GPUs, then bans after that limited their competitors.

So:

1) Pre-covid, High-Flyer hedge fund decides investing in AI was important, starts buying GPUs and starts Fire-Flyer which becomes DeepSeek.