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

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Here's the gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8.uvnw._K6k3yop4wNd&smid=url-share

Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people in the humanities oversell themselves. I studied physics and English. The idea that English has a more emotionally intelligent angle than physics is complete bs. Physics requires communication, cooperation, problem solving, and clear scientific writing. Emotional intelligence and regulation is essential to navigating the lab and being a productive member.

+1
Also, top schools especially do not merely teach tech and lab skills to stem majors. They teach thinking , analysis, creative problem solving and teamwork, on top of the latest engineering /physics/programming/applied math skills, depending on major. Writing is an integral part of these schools curriculum, stem and non. Choose a top school and you will be set for life. And no I do not mean the narrow minded Dcum view of top(T10/ivy or wasp), I mean one of the top 30-35 privates, one of the top 15 or 20 LACs and one of the top 20-25ish publics. That’s 75 or so schools, some significantly less selective but still provide an outstanding education.
The only people who need the t10/ivy are a small segment of students who are uber bright and also happen to be chasing some of the most elite subsections of fields. Most regular-bright students would do fine at any of the 75 or so above

You don't need to limit that paragraph to "top schools."

"They teach thinking , analysis, creative problem solving and teamwork, on top of the latest engineering /physics/programming/applied math skills, depending on major. Writing is an integral part of these schools curriculum, stem and non."

That's most colleges in the top 300 or so. Seriously.

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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.

CS is more than coding. My son just graduated with a CS degree in May and found a job with Medtronic working on embedded software for hospital equipment. All CS jobs are not in "Big Tech."

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know any cs grads working in Chipotle. But I do know humanities majors working at Starbucks.

My cs kid got an internship at a large tech company this summer making 40 per hour. They've asked dc to come back next year.

Can you tell us about these humanities students working at Starbucks?

DP

James Madison humanities grad, ubereats driver
Radford humanities grad, personal trainer
Randolph Madon humanities grad, barista but not at Starbucks

OTOH Columbia humanities grad, consultant at MBB

I think the school matters a lot for humanities grads.

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I saw this coming years ago, I know a few unemployed GaTech grads.

[Anonymous]

AI is going to decimate CS, the legal profession, medical, and many other jobs. I'm older Gen X, and I remember the internet getting rid of many professions, including travel agents. Poof, gone. This will be far worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is going to decimate CS, the legal profession, medical, and many other jobs. I'm older Gen X, and I remember the internet getting rid of many professions, including travel agents. Poof, gone. This will be far worse.

Travel agents making a come back

[Anonymous]

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.

CS is more than coding. My son just graduated with a CS degree in May and found a job with Medtronic working on embedded software for hospital equipment. All CS jobs are not in "Big Tech."

DS probably took the harder upper-level CS electives at his college. There is a chronic shortage of CS grads qualified to work on embedded systems or real-time systems. (There is a surplus of web programmers who too the easier upper-level electives, btw.)

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It’s thanks to open borders immigration pushed by every president for decades, including Trump. “Legal” and illegal immigration are a distinction without a difference. It’s all for the same reason: To gut domestic labor costs so the C-suite, tech oligarchs and Wall Street parasites can hoard more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know any cs grads working in Chipotle. But I do know humanities majors working at Starbucks.

My cs kid got an internship at a large tech company this summer making 40 per hour. They've asked dc to come back next year.

Can you tell us about these humanities students working at Starbucks?

DP

James Madison humanities grad, ubereats driver
Radford humanities grad, personal trainer
Randolph Madon humanities grad, barista but not at Starbucks

OTOH Columbia humanities grad, consultant at MBB

I think the school matters a lot for humanities grads.

Ick, I’d rather be a personal trainer or a barista.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is going to decimate CS, the legal profession, medical, and many other jobs. I'm older Gen X, and I remember the internet getting rid of many professions, including travel agents. Poof, gone. This will be far worse.

Medical is the only feild hiring. No one is going to allow patient care from robots, way too much regulation. Tech workers thought they were safe and refused to regulate and unionize so they're the dirst to suffer. If you were smart you would puch your kids toward health and medicine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know any cs grads working in Chipotle. But I do know humanities majors working at Starbucks.

My cs kid got an internship at a large tech company this summer making 40 per hour. They've asked dc to come back next year.

Can you tell us about these humanities students working at Starbucks?

DP

James Madison humanities grad, ubereats driver
Radford humanities grad, personal trainer
Randolph Madon humanities grad, barista but not at Starbucks

OTOH Columbia humanities grad, consultant at MBB

I think the school matters a lot for humanities grads.

Did they do internships? What were there career goals?

I know a physics grad who does grubbing, but he’s a complete bum and didn’t try at all in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI is going to decimate CS, the legal profession, medical, and many other jobs. I'm older Gen X, and I remember the internet getting rid of many professions, including travel agents. Poof, gone. This will be far worse.

Travel agents making a come back

You laugh now.

[Anonymous]

JMU grad working as a nanny during the week and looking for her Mrs. during her weekends off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI is going to decimate CS, the legal profession, medical, and many other jobs. I'm older Gen X, and I remember the internet getting rid of many professions, including travel agents. Poof, gone. This will be far worse.

I think we need travel agents again. We used to need them because we had no information; now we are inundated with information and need help weeding through the detritus.