>Instead you could have one or two local devs from your social circle, swing by their desk at 9am and they have the feature that Claude built merged by lunch?

Because the amount of skill it takes to do that is not commensurate with a salary high enough to afford living in SF.

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pfannkuchen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Then won’t cost of living in sf drop?

	▲	lnkdinsuxs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		eventually but the large share of a person living in SF are their state+city taxes, various fees like parking and rent. Those are not going down overnight but jobs are being lost faster than that.