Anyone else feels like the 'golden age' of Software Engineering, with $100k sign-on bonus out of college, is coming to an end?

If you are in school it seems now better to just become a founder/creator than aiming for FAANG

building far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. cofounder at miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

work a few years at FAANG then become a founder

talk is cheap, build.
C + rust + erlang + julia + λ. 
amateur in everything: distributed systems, ML, compilers and cryptography.

Better: slack off at Faang & build on the side until you can