Congratulations on your CS degree. Maybe you can work at Chipotle…

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Anonymous wrote:It is amazing how quickly Computer Science degrees and coding lost value.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html

The future is in humanities major. Employers are going to want people capable of thinking and working with AI, not people who do the coding.

Sure let’s celebrate the end of the US being a superpower of innovation

No one is getting jobs in humanities you idiot!

You think companies are going to hire in a depression?? You think companies are hiring women ? You think companies are hiring ??

Trump is destroying America project 2025 you are a complete idiot

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone copy and paste The NY Times article here? I'm blocked from seeing any of it.

You're not "blocked." You just haven't paid for the content.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone copy and paste The NY Times article here? I'm blocked from seeing any of it.

You're not "blocked." You just haven't paid for the content.

A gift link was provided in an earlier post.

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The smart CS kids took as many classes as they could in machine learning and are doing fine for now.

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Anonymous wrote:The smart CS kids took as many classes as they could in machine learning and are doing fine for now.

That's the most competitive field and filled with industry experts with graduate degrees competing for jobs. The smart people took the actually difficult courses in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. These trends move and fade. Before, everything was Bayesian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is amazing how quickly Computer Science degrees and coding lost value.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html

The future is in humanities major. Employers are going to want people capable of thinking and working with AI, not people who do the coding.

The non-techie kids (or parents of them) are hoping for the downfall of CS majors. Humanities major any non STEM majors will fare much worse if AI takes over. Believe that.

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Someone explain what these humanities courses are doing to teach people how to do jobs that will be in demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone explain what these humanities courses are doing to teach people how to do jobs that will be in demand.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Someone explain what these humanities courses are doing to teach people how to do jobs that will be in demand.

Nobody can.

BTW…all the new AI companies popping up are all created by CS and other STEM majors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is amazing how quickly Computer Science degrees and coding lost value.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html

The future is in humanities major. Employers are going to want people capable of thinking and working with AI, not people who do the coding.

Well CS != only coding and never has been so you're not not off to a great start.

Go ahead die on that hill, you're just demonstrating the simplistic thinking that will be the downfall of the profession. Tech leaders want to eliminate white collar jobs, the test case is CS.

Nope! Plenty of easier to eliminate jobs (probably whatever you do).

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody who majors in CS and is just a programmer (coder sounds better but it's programming) either had bad advice, is not the brightest, or went to a crap school.

And that's exactly what I said earlier, but apparently it's hard for people to comprehend.

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Anonymous wrote:This student had zero internships, extracurriculars, research, or on-campus jobs in college. I don't think they're a good barometer for career prospects.

Ding ding ding. Purdue is a great school, the student is not representative of typical students in the market for a job

It's been a rough economy. COVID and now the economic uncertainty where unemployment is skyrocketing. The article said the Pursue CS major looked for internships for more than a year.

And it's not just the Purdue kid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html
Among them was Zach Taylor, 25, who enrolled as a computer science major at Oregon State University in 2019 partly because he had loved programming video games in high school. Tech industry jobs seemed plentiful at the time.

Since graduating in 2023, however, Mr. Taylor said, he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.

The job search has been one of “the most demoralizing experiences I have ever had to go through,” he added.

The electronics firm where he had a software engineering internship last year was not able to hire him, he said. This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. He has since moved back home to Sherwood, Ore., and is receiving unemployment benefits.

Realize this is anecdata, but I also know an OSU CS major who is living at home with no prospects a year after graduating. Resume's go unanswered. He's attending every tech meetup but he just meets people like himself.

Yeah and how many other majors are dealing with the same thing. Anecdotes are ****. Data says CS is doing just fine despite what the OP is pushing.

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Ummm- humanities majors are not known for ability to think in the real world. They can’t get stuff done like a STEM major can. STEM majors can think and do… and super fast and efficient.

Real world is not about sitting around and debating esoteric ancient minutiae.

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Anonymous wrote:The smart CS kids took as many classes as they could in machine learning and are doing fine for now.

That's the most competitive field and filled with industry experts with graduate degrees competing for jobs. The smart people took the actually difficult courses in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. These trends move and fade. Before, everything was Bayesian.

Maybe. You're speaking Greek to me. But our kid has done well with a recent undergrad degree in CS, listing all the machine learning classes they took. They ended up in FAANG with just an undergraduate degree from a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:This student had zero internships, extracurriculars, research, or on-campus jobs in college. I don't think they're a good barometer for career prospects.

Ding ding ding. Purdue is a great school, the student is not representative of typical students in the market for a job

It's been a rough economy. COVID and now the economic uncertainty where unemployment is skyrocketing. The article said the Pursue CS major looked for internships for more than a year.

And it's not just the Purdue kid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html
Among them was Zach Taylor, 25, who enrolled as a computer science major at Oregon State University in 2019 partly because he had loved programming video games in high school. Tech industry jobs seemed plentiful at the time.

Since graduating in 2023, however, Mr. Taylor said, he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.

The job search has been one of “the most demoralizing experiences I have ever had to go through,” he added.

The electronics firm where he had a software engineering internship last year was not able to hire him, he said. This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. He has since moved back home to Sherwood, Ore., and is receiving unemployment benefits.

Realize this is anecdata, but I also know an OSU CS major who is living at home with no prospects a year after graduating. Resume's go unanswered. He's attending every tech meetup but he just meets people like himself.

Yeah and how many other majors are dealing with the same thing. Anecdotes are ****. Data says CS is doing just fine despite what the OP is pushing.

Look the tech goons are out to decimate their own workforce. They were upset with the gains their workers made during COVID and they want to claw it all back and then some. Yes, the entire economy is teetering, but it's the tech workforce that is being directly targeted. Terrible time to be in CS. This has nothing to do with who is the most able.