For students who are interested in majoring in AI

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Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

[Anonymous]

You can learn more by downloading and training your own models than what undergrad courses are teaching, though many are starting to do the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

For those interested. Full text is on X.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/citadel-securities-rebuts-citrini-intelligence-crisis-scenario
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-losses-wall-street-strategist-citrini-research-citadel-securities-2026-2

[Anonymous]

It's crazy how everyone has an AI opinion here, but no one discussed Citrini or the response. Roiling the market, but I guess it's all coders and SWE who hang out here? No real strategic thinkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

AI code isn't 100% perfect, either, but somehow, you seem to think AI will only come for SWE jobs.

AI will eventually catchup with the LLM, and it will replace writers, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy how everyone has an AI opinion here, but no one discussed Citrini or the response. Roiling the market, but I guess it's all coders and SWE who hang out here? No real strategic thinkers.

My opinion is that AI will replace writers faster than it will SWE. This is from my perspective working with a FAANG.

[Anonymous]

Prompt engineering is now called vibe coding. Some people are more effective than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy how everyone has an AI opinion here, but no one discussed Citrini or the response. Roiling the market, but I guess it's all coders and SWE who hang out here? No real strategic thinkers.

I mentioned this article in one my responses on another thread but no one seemed to respond. I think most are not aware of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prompt engineering is now called vibe coding. Some people are more effective than others.

humanities major here. i now vibe code using Claude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy how everyone has an AI opinion here, but no one discussed Citrini or the response. Roiling the market, but I guess it's all coders and SWE who hang out here? No real strategic thinkers.

My opinion is that AI will replace writers faster than it will SWE. This is from my perspective working with a FAANG.

Right. And my perspective working in finance is that it won't impact the kinds of writers I care most about yet (but of course it will come for everyone). We want more English (and History and Phil) majors these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

The Citrini report wasn't written by AI...and Citadel's response was simply it's investment perspective. The Citrini report was as well written as any analyst report (it was clear in terms of communicating what it wanted to communicate), and the Citadel report was also as well written as any analyst report. These aren't works of great literature.

I do agree with PP, that call it 95% of writing in the workplace doesn't have to be any good...it just needs to communicate what needs to be communicated. Corporations pump out like 10 press releases a day on their boring, random shit that I assume are now getting written with AI...nobody cares how well they are written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

The Citrini report wasn't written by AI...and Citadel's response was simply it's investment perspective. The Citrini report was as well written as any analyst report (it was clear in terms of communicating what it wanted to communicate), and the Citadel report was also as well written as any analyst report. These aren't works of great literature.

I do agree with PP, that call it 95% of writing in the workplace doesn't have to be any good...it just needs to communicate what needs to be communicated. Corporations pump out like 10 press releases a day on their boring, random shit that I assume are now getting written with AI...nobody cares how well they are written.

Someone on Bloomberg TV ran both of them through pangram/originality. Citrini was 70% + red. Its on X.
But it doesn't matter. I thought Citadel's was better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

The AI writing is so bad. Did you see Citadel's human response to Citrini?
The human writing crushed Citrini.

The Citrini report wasn't written by AI...and Citadel's response was simply it's investment perspective. The Citrini report was as well written as any analyst report (it was clear in terms of communicating what it wanted to communicate), and the Citadel report was also as well written as any analyst report. These aren't works of great literature.

I do agree with PP, that call it 95% of writing in the workplace doesn't have to be any good...it just needs to communicate what needs to be communicated. Corporations pump out like 10 press releases a day on their boring, random shit that I assume are now getting written with AI...nobody cares how well they are written.

Someone on Bloomberg TV ran both of them through pangram/originality. Citrini was 70% + red. Its on X.
But it doesn't matter. I thought Citadel's was better.

The AI detectors are trash. If you run passages from Shakespeare and other great novels, they will come up as nearly 100% AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

lol. No one cares about "real writing" anymore. Why do you think there was a Screenwriters strike in Hollywood? They are afraid that AI will take over screen writing. Would they be scared of that if they thought Hollywood cared about "real writing"?

And AI coding still needs QA. So, you still need SWE to review AI output, too.

I think the real fear in Hollywood is that the cache of the writer, director, et al is worth so much more than the actual product...up to the point that the films or TV shows are flops.

So, if Quentin Tarantino decides he is going to use AI to write scripts for 10 different ideas, he likely can easily sell 3-5 of those scripts because he's Tarantino. That means that 3 or 4 other screenwriters aren't selling their scripts.

So far, none of the great talent is taking this approach...but if one of them were to get into some $$$ troubles, you could definitely see it happening.

In more practical uses...AI is in fact taking actual hollywood jobs for more of the "sausage-making" jobs. You don't need storyboard artists much anymore because AI can do it...you don't need people creating background special effects (creating say 10,000 random humans in an FX stadium scene)...Coca Cola used AI to produce some holiday commercials and they saved 95% compared to making a commercial the normal way (the commercial was panned, but Coca Cola didn't care because their sales actually rose, which is all they care about with respect to a commercial).