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I don't know GP's situation. But in the case of the linked article, given anthropic's tie to the Bay Area "rationalist" community, one possible reason why the author has a roommate is he bought in to the rationalist "group house" culture and moved in with one of them.

Product managers aren't management. They manage the trajectory of a software initiative. They can be hired straight out of college.

Rents in the San Francisco Bay area are too high to live a practical distance from job centers as a junior without roommates.

What? Plenty of people prefer to live with roommates, especially in the bay.