I Have to Bury My Talent in Yesterday

Interestingly, Anthropic and voices in China’s open-source AI community seem to describe each other’s lead in AI as the equivalent of Hitler getting the atomic bomb before the Allies. A personal reflection from a DeepSeek kernel developer on watching AI master the craft he loves—and helping build the technology that may replace him. It explores what we stand to lose even if we keep our jobs, and why open-source AI matters.