one could argue America is forcing China to learn how to program better via it's GPU sanctions.

Guffaw, as if people are "learning to program" anymore.

But the USA is definitely forcing Deepseek to learn how to write leaner code! Bring it on.

well, of course people are still "learning to program" it's just everyone gets to be sitting in the chair of an academic or the start up chair, or whatever.

Since they're still improving models, they still are learning how to program, it's just a meta game now, not the specific intricacies.