What are CS majors going to do...

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Anonymous wrote:my kid says there's a big movement to hard and soft skills. so history and data science double major. or Econ and philosophy.

How’s history gonna give you more soft skills? Unless you’re talking about being brainwashed is a soft skill?

History doesn't give you soft skills. History gives you perspective.

It's all happened before and it will all happen again.

STEM majors are more likely to have better knowledge in history than humanities majors because they’re generally more intellectually curious. That has been my observation.

You have overplayed your hand.

If you wanted to argue that stem majors on average are smarter than humanities majors, I could see you winning that argument but arguing that STEM majors know more history than humanities majors is a stretch.

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Anonymous wrote:First off, what is AI doing besides sorting through natural language and patching together words and numbers? Thats it.

Oh boy. If you believe this, you are in deep trouble.

To be fair, he would have been right a couple of years ago.
This shit is moving really fast.

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CS majors are going to work at Starbucks.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid says there's a big movement to hard and soft skills. so history and data science double major. or Econ and philosophy.

How’s history gonna give you more soft skills? Unless you’re talking about being brainwashed is a soft skill?

History doesn't give you soft skills. History gives you perspective.

It's all happened before and it will all happen again.

STEM majors are more likely to have better knowledge in history than humanities majors because they’re generally more intellectually curious. That has been my observation.

Have you talked to CS majors taking discrete math or a proof-based analysis of algorithms class? They're not even intellectually curious about CS!

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Anonymous wrote:What are any major going to do...

I guess some posters think being an English major is the way to go, as if AI can't replace writers faster than it can replace software programmers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-president-ai-humanities-majors-more-important-2026-2#:~:text=Follow%20Henry%20Chandonnet,she%20said%20on%20ABC%20News.

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said that AI was making humanities majors "more important than ever."
Amodei was a literature major. She told ABC News that she prizes "the things that make us human."
"At the end of the day, people still really like interacting with people," she said.

wait, so you have one humanities major in AI saying this, but I posted a link about how some tech companies are growing their entry level, but that doesn't matter? Where's the critical thinking skills here.

She doesn't regret her English major because she's now wealthy. How many English majors wish that they had picked a more marketable major compared to CS majors? Granted, I think too many people jumped on the CS bandwagon because they thought that was an easy avenue to get a good paying job, but I bet a lot of these people don't enjoy what they do, and at the end of the day, probably aren't that good at it.

Do you understand what exactly she's saying here? She's saying that humanities majors are still important, not that AI companies want to hire them.

things that make us human will become much more important,.. Amodei listed some things that make us human: understanding ourselves, our history, and what makes us tick.

Sure, we still need humanities majors, but she's not saying those majors will be able to get good paying jobs.

Look at the open jobs out there. How many tech companies are looking for humanities majors?

There are many threads about this on this forum. Please do searches and read. I am a recruiter for a major tech firm. You must not be in the field or from overseas. Many tech giant CEOs are also saying the same thing, they’re hiring more humanities majors with the strong critical thinking, writing, communication skills. There are many examples on this forum of kids graduating over the years with non STEM majors getting high paying jobs at the tech/consulting/banking firms (majors like history, IR, econ, poli sci, etc) wake up. Many many Fortune 500 CEOs have humanities majors.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40440952/why-this-tech-ceo-keeps-hiring-humanities-majors

https://thewayofimprovement.blog/2017/02/18/mark-cuban-dont-go-to-college-to-study-business-study-the-humanities/

Prominent Fortune 500 CEOs with Humanities Degrees:
Brian Moynihan (Bank of America): History
Alex Karp (Palantir): Philosophy
Michael Eisner (Former Disney): English Literature & Theater
Kenneth Chenault (Former American Express): History
Lloyd Blankfein (Former Goldman Sachs): History
Mark Parker (Nike): Political Science
Brian Cornell (Target): Political Science
Gail Boudreaux (Anthem): Psychology/Sociology

If you are a "hiring major" for a "major Tech firm" and you are hiring humanities majors, I truly feel bad for the company you work for.

🤣🤣🤣 You are a sad human being. You do realize humanities include a wide range of majors including econ, gov, pol sci, IR, English, history…many of these kids combine majors with traditional stem ones. Please stop living in the 80s/90s

Someone doesn’t know the difference between the humanities and social sciences. Everything you listed except for English is part of the social sciences.

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Because people on this thread seem confused:

Humanities: majors that focus on non-scientific human output and often also explore the intention behind that output. Tends to be more subjective than the social sciences. Examples include English, philosophy, literature, art history, music, etc

Social Sciences: majors that focus on understanding how people interact with one another and why they do so in particular ways. The goal is often to derive a theory of human behavior. Examples include political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics

History is sometimes considered social sciences and sometimes considered humanities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kids who don't get good grades, can't communicate and are just coders the future is bleak. The kids who have engineering minds, hustle, willing to work in defense and in person it will be ok. There won't be positions making fun websites or front ends for businesses, freelancers are done. Those who can do firmware, various languages and be creative, it will be possible to have a career. If we have no entry level CS people then we won't have any mid level ones in 5 years either which would not be good.

You only need to know one language now. Ai can translate anything

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Anonymous wrote:CS majors are going to work at Starbucks.

Yes, Starbucks will be operated by AI and Robots, so CS majors fit.

Liberal arts majors will be completely jobless

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My 2025 CS major is gainfully employed, but he is actually good at what he does, not just a "coder".

My 2026 grad--we are allowing him to major in theatre bc maybe AI won't take the job of a live performer. Maybe. Not sure what else he would do that AI won't take.

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Anonymous wrote:What are any major going to do...

I guess some posters think being an English major is the way to go, as if AI can't replace writers faster than it can replace software programmers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-president-ai-humanities-majors-more-important-2026-2#:~:text=Follow%20Henry%20Chandonnet,she%20said%20on%20ABC%20News.

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said that AI was making humanities majors "more important than ever."
Amodei was a literature major. She told ABC News that she prizes "the things that make us human."
"At the end of the day, people still really like interacting with people," she said.

wait, so you have one humanities major in AI saying this, but I posted a link about how some tech companies are growing their entry level, but that doesn't matter? Where's the critical thinking skills here.

She doesn't regret her English major because she's now wealthy. How many English majors wish that they had picked a more marketable major compared to CS majors? Granted, I think too many people jumped on the CS bandwagon because they thought that was an easy avenue to get a good paying job, but I bet a lot of these people don't enjoy what they do, and at the end of the day, probably aren't that good at it.

Do you understand what exactly she's saying here? She's saying that humanities majors are still important, not that AI companies want to hire them.

things that make us human will become much more important,.. Amodei listed some things that make us human: understanding ourselves, our history, and what makes us tick.

Sure, we still need humanities majors, but she's not saying those majors will be able to get good paying jobs.

Look at the open jobs out there. How many tech companies are looking for humanities majors?

There are many threads about this on this forum. Please do searches and read. I am a recruiter for a major tech firm. You must not be in the field or from overseas. Many tech giant CEOs are also saying the same thing, they’re hiring more humanities majors with the strong critical thinking, writing, communication skills. There are many examples on this forum of kids graduating over the years with non STEM majors getting high paying jobs at the tech/consulting/banking firms (majors like history, IR, econ, poli sci, etc) wake up. Many many Fortune 500 CEOs have humanities majors.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40440952/why-this-tech-ceo-keeps-hiring-humanities-majors

https://thewayofimprovement.blog/2017/02/18/mark-cuban-dont-go-to-college-to-study-business-study-the-humanities/

Prominent Fortune 500 CEOs with Humanities Degrees:
Brian Moynihan (Bank of America): History
Alex Karp (Palantir): Philosophy
Michael Eisner (Former Disney): English Literature & Theater
Kenneth Chenault (Former American Express): History
Lloyd Blankfein (Former Goldman Sachs): History
Mark Parker (Nike): Political Science
Brian Cornell (Target): Political Science
Gail Boudreaux (Anthem): Psychology/Sociology

If you are a "hiring major" for a "major Tech firm" and you are hiring humanities majors, I truly feel bad for the company you work for.

🤣🤣🤣 You are a sad human being. You do realize humanities include a wide range of majors including econ, gov, pol sci, IR, English, history…many of these kids combine majors with traditional stem ones. Please stop living in the 80s/90s

Someone doesn’t know the difference between the humanities and social sciences. Everything you listed except for English is part of the social sciences.

Don’t think the distinction matters to those who think STEM is the golden ticket. Humanities, liberal arts … terms get thrown about. Includes all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2025 CS major is gainfully employed, but he is actually good at what he does, not just a "coder".

My 2026 grad--we are allowing him to major in theatre bc maybe AI won't take the job of a live performer. Maybe. Not sure what else he would do that AI won't take.

There aren't many jobs for theater majors, though. My DC loves the theater but knows it's very difficult to make a living from it. They usually end up being waiters or working at starbucks.

AI is also coming for the arts, and AI can definitely replace English and history majors. No area is safe from AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is also coming for the arts, and AI can definitely replace English and history majors. No area is safe from AI.

Except nurses, fire fighters, law enforcement, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:AI is also coming for the arts, and AI can definitely replace English and history majors. No area is safe from AI.

Except nurses, fire fighters, law enforcement, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.

AI robots will come for their jobs, too.

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Anonymous wrote:AI is also coming for the arts, and AI can definitely replace English and history majors. No area is safe from AI.

Except nurses, fire fighters, law enforcement, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.

AI robots will come for their jobs, too.

A lot will depend on the degree to which the public accepts interacting only with an AI-powered robot in lieu of an RN, PT or yes, an MD when receiving medical care. Will the inpatient public demand human interaction on post-op day 1 following hip replacement? Is this group collectively powerful enough to override the market force of hospital conglomerates like MedStar and of BlueCross?

I just had a telehealth appt where the provider very clearly was giving me medical advice that was generated by AI in real time to synthesize my answers to her AI-driven questions. She was literally reading the answers spit out by a proprietary LLM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AI is also coming for the arts, and AI can definitely replace English and history majors. No area is safe from AI.

Except nurses, fire fighters, law enforcement, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.

AI robots will come for their jobs, too.

No 18-year-old interested in nursing, first responders roles or the trades will be replaced by robots before retirement age.