Outside of the Bay Area, sure - California is a pretty big place, and trades are in demand all over.
Will they make the 100k in the lower income parts of Cali though?
Readit NewsLet's run the numbers.
If I were an 18 year old financially savvy person making $100k a year in California, I would probably take home about $70k. About $1k, maybe $2k at the highest would be set aside for rent with roommates because I'm 18 and there's very little upside to me having my own apartment yet.
Groceries here in Finland are more expensive than I remember them ever being in the United States, and so based on my current budget I would set aside about $300 per month for food for myself. Maybe $400 if I wanted to go to restaurants more often. $500 is reasonable too. Over $1000 and you are deluding yourself or need to buy a rice cooker.
I'm still saving about $40,000 per yer, over half of my take home pay, conservatively. I'd consider that really good! What I do with that is my business, but on one extreme, if I threw all of that directly into my retirement fund, at a 7% real rate of return (reasonable given past index fund performance, already adjusted for inflation), I would have roughly $1 million in today's money by the time I'm 65.
But of course that's ignoring the real elephant in the room, which is that wages are famously sticky, and getting paid $100k by 18 is probably the single most surefire way to get paid $1 million by 30. The kinds of things and the kind of person you have to be to pull that off are where that price signal is coming from, and so I take away from this that, as is often the case in finance, these kids are probably not going to have to worry about that much money-wise even if they don't stick to a strictly calibrated plan.
They’ll way to start families, not live with roommates.
Can they afford a middle class lifestyle with just 100k? My understanding of costs of living in California puts people in that range in the working class with a very low rate of savings (no hope to escape into middle class even with compounding) or they could afford a small family and no savings.
Just let it interpret the python code /S
It could also detect any bugs and fix them on the fly.
Maybe they could do typechecking using an LLM agent? I'm sure they'd fund a team for that.
kubb commented on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report fortune.com/2025/08/18/mi... · Posted by u/amirkabbara
> Of course easier said than done. I can’t lie this convincingly, I don’t have the con man skillset or connections.
Isn't the idea that you're not a shitty human being enough in and of itself?
I am. I'm working for a despicable company for money.
And an incompetent one at that. I can't grab a bag and leave.
kubb commented on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report fortune.com/2025/08/18/mi... · Posted by u/amirkabbara
How much money can you pull out as a failed startup founder?
About a mil? Maybe two? Seems realistic…
People have to invent whatever seems reasonable while squinting given how much accumulation of capital there is.
The guys with money are easy to fool. Just lie to them about your „product”, get the cash, get out of the rat race, smooth sailing.
Of course easier said than done. I can’t lie this convincingly, I don’t have the con man skillset or connections.
So I’m stuck in a 9 to 5. Zzz…
kubb commented on Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
yeah, tipically they are building a to do list and organizer app and have not found that github is flooded with college students' project of their revolutionary to-do apps
I don’t want to dismiss or disrespect anyone’s work. But I never see precise descriptions of categories of tasks that work well, it’s all based on vibes.
I can’t believe you’re trying to be sarcastically condescending with this kind of comment. It’s difficult to respect that.