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To: Bonefish who wrote (1560163)	9/20/2025 4:29:26 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583878

Bonefish, TenQ, what were the previous fees for an H-1B? Somewhere between $1,000 and $5,000, which is totally reasonable given the amount of processing that needs to be done. And why aren't their enough qualified coders? This whole "lern2code" bullshit is giving people the wrong idea about what it takes to maintain our edge in high-tech. It's not just about the ability to code. Anyone can write a for loop and print "Hello world" over and over again. ChatGPT could do that. Instead, it's about data structures. It's about architecting large-scale systems. It's about being able to write code with enough hooks in it to debug the code when something goes wrong. It's about being able to test the code and integrate it into a larger ecosystem. It's about communicating with others to divide up the problem and get to a solution in a more timely way. It's about understanding what the architects want, documenting it, dealing with changes that inevitably come in the middle of the project, and delivering before the competition can deliver. And that's just on the software side. I work in hardware, where the skills are more specialized. 80% of startups are in software, but the software has to run on something, which is where us hardware guys come in. Maybe Trump can provide us some experienced engineers who know about backend server interfaces, CPU architecture, large scalable memory in order to demolish the AI memory wall, power efficiency so that we don't need to power our AI systems with nuclear reactors, "black magicians" who know how to design analog circuits in order to transmit data over 5G wireless networks as well as copper wires, etc. Or maybe Trump can give higher education the funds and the support to help train a whole new generation of engineers who are well-equipped from day one to contribute directly to our high-tech sector. Kind of stupid for companies these days to continue demanding engineers with a minimum of 5-10 years of experience. How the fukk are we supposed to produce those engineers in the first place if they aren't coming out of college with said "5-10 years of experience"? But no, you and I both know that Trump doesn't give a shit about that. Nor does he like higher education in general because he thinks they're too "woke." Instead, all he cares about is forcing companies to hire rEaL aMeRiCaNs. Great. I'm a rEaL aMeRiCaN. Should I look forward to my base salary rising by a factor of 2x to 3x? Yeah right, companies are going to move their R&D overseas before they ever pay such a premium for a guy like me. Tenchusatsu