A DeepSeek engineer's viral post on talent, power, and humanity is a rare snapshot of work at China's frontier AI labs
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A frontline DeepSeek engineer publicly saying he expects AI to surpass him at the work he loves is a cultural tell—China’s frontier labs are normalizing rapid obsolescence as an acceptable cost of progress. For Western teams competing for talent, expect more candidates who see “being outperformed by the model” as inevitable and optimize for access to frontier systems over job security.
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