A few of them have jobs at other places. No idea of their salary. But, they didn't had any binding clause - you could attend the course to your best and could leave without any penalty. They didn't ask my wife to refund any expense when she dropped midway - nor did my wife pay anything.
PS: My wife joined their cohort an year back. Folks today may have different experiences.
I can vouch that this is not a scam. My wife enrolled with them and went through the first weeks of their program, though she couldn't complete due to some exigency. They were trained on how to vibe-code, and then asked to build complex apps using AI with all the costs borne by Gauntlet. Her friends did fly to Austin and went through the complete program.
I agree that runtime support will definitely help. However, a simple mitigation strategy is to override the `fetch` function and provide a central rate-limiting. This helps prevent such incidents even if this kind of bugs are shipped to production.
Food is not entirely local. CA gets majority of fruits from Mexico, Peru, Chile etc. Olive, Sunflower, and other oils are imported. Many spices are imported. Lumber tariffs will impact housing and repairs. Any thing with semi-conductors will be expensive: routers, modems, tablets, phones.
Middle class expenses may arise around 5-10% at the very least.
I fail to understand how an empty DIV can break a state-of-the-art video acceleration. Why not add another check to remove such empty HTML tags before hand.