I don't like the guy, nor do I think of him as a role model, but he's not successful because he palled around with Epstein; he got the opportunity to pal around

I don't like the guy, nor do I think of him as a role model, but he's not successful because he palled around with Epstein; he got the opportunity to pal around with Epstein because he was successful. And that success inspired others. The business-oriented side of IT hailed him, and Microsoft, as a success story to be emulated. Those people are going to come out on top when all is said and done in the AI revolution. The old-school programmers who got into it for the sheer joy of it, the hackers, are going to lose, as the abilities that set them apart and let them trade some of the value they bring for enough money to keep hacking become available to anyone on tap for a few bucks per million tokens.