Note that this is a minority position, most of the world does not live in the West and does not share your view on Mao and Che having a "strongly negative" contribution.
The fact that they reimplemented everything from scratch doesn't give much confidence. The last thing I want to deal with in a video editor are bugs from code that's seen less real-world use, originating from who knows where.
Bingo. OP needs to do a lot more digging into what a PhD entails and why you get one, and hopefully not from the same sources of where they learned this terminology like "hard-tech" and "technology-first"
This is an oversimplification. Yes, there was corruption, but it was much less corrupt than the US system, especially today. The US system doesn't try to hide it either, everyone knows about legacy admissions and "school spirit"/donations.
Hate to be that guy but you're likely holding the tool wrong. Being an expert does not guarantee you're one of those people who can easily get good results from an (frontier) LLM.
Just because it's easy to post doesn't mean you have to press submit on every thought that comes to your head. It's okay to admit you're working off of a very "self-taught" understanding.
If you think the job is just writing code then yes you are screwed, just like if you thought your job was just making punch cards. In most roles you have more responsibilities than plainly converting words into text. You're probably not being paid to simply be a human calculator (otherwise you'd be paid a lot less!).
It only needs additional context and work if you are unfamiliar with the concepts underlying it. Possibly consider you are out of your depth here, rather than jumping to conclusions.