alt Hacker NewsI live in less developed countries so it is actually useful for me but I see it the same way as you wrote here.
Low-life businessmen ruined the technology outside of some spaces where there is strong tech leadership. They did too much damage to reputation of the whole industry
They did the same butchering to LLM/AI tech.
Silicon Valley was a place of engineering invention, and then the money-people saw, "Oh, there's riches to be made here!"...