Comment by zuzululu
4 hours ago
He was smart/determined enough to risk it all. Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? Why play into the stereotypes ?
4 hours ago
He was smart/determined enough to risk it all. Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ? Why play into the stereotypes ?
> He was smart/determined enough to risk it all.
Desperate people are willing to risk it all, and usually smart people aren't desperate.
>Why didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ?
Probably was not able to get into MIT or another prestigious school that many of those companies look for on a resume.
None of my peers went to any school of note, nor did I. A fair bit of community college, some lower ranked state unis, and one guy did a bootcamp.
All well above 200k.
What do they do, _exactly_? Because in the real world out of YC, the rest of us can barely top $200,000 a year unless we move into management or Executive level roles.
It is honestly much easier to spread malware or hack companies than it is to make 200k/year from a company.
Now with AI, you can accelerate this so much. The only thing holding back thousands of new threat actors from doing the same is Opsec, its hard.
A silver lining is that at least a lot of these AI generated malware and phishing scams are easy to disrupt with mild white hat skills. Often the people behind them lack the knowledge on how to prevent themselves from being disrupted by said white hats.
The most laughable I've seen was a scam that put a captcha on the frontend to stop me from flooding their free email system on the backend and rate limit them. However, the captcha was clientside only, so I didn't even notice until I looked to see if they rotated emails, but also the captcha was a textbox with the code set as the placeholder.
Truly the pinnacle of vibecoding a scam.
Yeah, clearly risking it all wasn't the smart play here, as evidenced by the fact he got caught.
A lot of people are willing to tolerate risk, that hardly makes them useful. Frequently the opposite.
> didn't he just try find a job that pays $200k/year ?
you really think it's that easy?
Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make no mistakes.
Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make a breakthrough.