Given the AI gold rush, in 5 years, we're going to look back at the winners of this time, and say the same thing.
You could just get your code into lama.cpp, get a job at the winning AI startup, get stocks, get vested, become rich. So why haven't you? Hindsight is easy.
Yea, I remember graduating undergrad in 1998 as a Comp Eng major. Nobody knew who was going to make it big and who was going to be out of business in 2 years. It was a total gamble. Nobody has a crystal ball. Do you join MCI Worldcom or AT&T? One of them is still a world leader and one of them is defunct. How were we to know? Do you join Amazon or Webvan? I chose to go into 3D graphics... Should I have joined NVIDIA, ATI, or Matrox? One of them is now basically nonexistent, one of them got bought and had its ups and downs, and one of them is now the third largest company in the world. In hindsight it's now obvious but it wasn't at the time.
You could just get your code into lama.cpp, get a job at the winning AI startup, get stocks, get vested, become rich. So why haven't you? Hindsight is easy.