>Why should that obligation be proportional (or progressively proportional) to the wealth you have and not to the resources you use (or wealth you have in that country).
This is analogous to asking why should software be priced on value delivered, vs priced on costs incurred in producing. Value pricing is much more common.
The value you derive from living in the country of your residence is higher that your poorer neighbors; hence you are charged more.
It's six years in total, excluding time spent outside the US. The status is valid for at most three calendar years, but it can be shorter for fixed-term positions. And you can renew it as long as your total time in the US is less than 6 years.
I was on H-1B at a university where researcher appointments were nominally from July of year N to June of year N+2. But if you didn't start in July, your second appointment might be only 1 year, for some bureaucratic reasons. And you had to renew the H-1B for each appointment. I had five H-1Bs in total over ~7 years.
Not the OP, not my code. But here is Mitchel Hashimoto showing his workflow and code in Zig, created with AI agent assistance: https://youtu.be/XyQ4ZTS5dGw
I think this still is some kind of 'fight' between assisted and more towards 'vibe'. Vibe for me means not reading the generated code, just trying it and the other extreme is writing all without AI. I don't think people here are talking about assisted : they are taking about vibe or almost vibe coding. And its fairly terrible if the llm does not have tons of info. It can loop, hang, remove tons of features, break random things etc all while being cheerful and saying 'this is production code now, ready to deploy'. And people believe it. When you use it to assist, it is great imho.
This is the problem with nodding yes to laws that will “only affect the bad people!”. If the law is ineffective, or if the law is effective and they run out of bad people to enforce it on - guess who they are coming after?!
The enablers either individually or demographically are low on the list. That's the problem, people feel justified being enablers because they rightly surmise the risk to them personally is low.
