enlighten us

my theory is that their own DeepSeek writes the code for them, so they are highly productive.

I’d expect them to highlight that, rather than keep it secret. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it a little bit, but probably not to an extent that is really unique or unusual.

That would be terrifying in itself if true because for this type of work you really need the best of the best. But I doubt this is the case here. LLMs as we know them today are not quite yet there for this type of work.

Do you, though? Need the best of the best?

As someone who did some simulation focused engineering grad school stuff; there is a tendency for some of the best to go become quants. Does the field need it? I don’t know. But for whatever reason the draw of the “print money using math tricks” seems to attract some hardcore folks, haha.

It is really frustrating to see good engineers go to play trading games. We should study how exactly it is China managed to unlock this capacity.

Government effectively banned unproductive tech (adtech, fintech etc) and told ppl to go do stuff like robotics and AI

I’m beginning to suspect this invisible hand isn’t as clever as it was made out to be.

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I think so yes. There's very few engineers that can pull out this type of work IME. In a pool of ~30M SEs around the globe I'd say there's no more than ~30K of such engineers. This is 0.001% and it's a very optimistic number I'd say.

Why do you think this would be controversial? This isn't an every day work.

They wrote this in 2019, well before any useful codegen LLMs existed.

https://www.high-flyer.cn/blog/3fs/

996 work culture?

That's been illegal for three and a half years?

That's been illegal since May 1995 (before that China had six working days week).

Does it really matter whether it's illegal or not, if there is no enforcement? Pinduoduo (in other name, Temu) has been doing 70 hours week since they started. Yes, they are still doing it right now.