> How many of you software engineers want to sign up for high taxes?

FWIW, I do. I don't live in the US, though.

Note that it's hard for researchers in Europe, too.

But as far as I can tell, not nearly as hard as in the US. I don't think that any PhD student in Europe has been deported by masked agents, for instance.

Erm... security?

Seen from Europe, the current US administration doesn't want a Europe, end of story.

Trump 1.0 already tried to convince EU countries to exit the EU.

Trump 2.0 keeps insulting the EU, threatening the EU economically and threatening it militarily. To the point where even most of the far right EU candidates who were betting on being the ${EU COUNTRY} Trump are now doing their best to display how they're very much not Trump.

Yes, I do, but it's not going to prevent me from doing so.

I believe that the current generation of GenAI (as a market, not necessarily as a tech) is going to crash and burn by 2027. I also believe that open-source will stay and will keep helping people and that, as the world becomes more lawless and free-for-all, we'll need all the help we can find.