They're allowing monthly payments for the first time, which are slightly more expensive than paying yearly like every company on the planet does. Way less of a deal than the title makes it sound.
"at least 5 years of programming (not necessarily professional)" interests me quite a bit as I've been a hobbyist for many years but haven't coded professionally much, but FYI the test sent to my email asks for number of years of professional experience. You might want to update that if you're actually open to applicants with non-professional experience.
Interesting testing strategy, but you said you can't live without it. What do you actually use it for? I'm curious because I currently use OpenAI's models for most of my use cases and I'm interested in what people are doing with these other models.
The open secret is they are roleplaying with elf women and such. (I mean local-llm people, not gp specifically)
But don't rush to dismiss it as a fringe area. Unopposed "alignment" will influence everything even slightly related to AI. It's going to be a version of modern social issues with corporate fears driving the norms (anyone who didn't live under a rock for the last ten years is aware of these), but in a subtler way. All the writings, all the articles, everything will look like max-volume DEI report. It may turn out to be a good thing in general, but also the same "good for you" as in your favorite anti-utopia.
I used to work for them, and I agree. It seems confusing from the outside but internally they maintain a pretty consistent system. Many third party partners don't follow this system properly, in my experience.
It's mostly a custom stack, but it's written in Rust and uses some parts of Bevy from what I understand.