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

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Anonymous wrote:If AI is gojng to take lots of the jobs why is everyone so worried about the birth rate?
It seems to me like it dove tails nicely—we can have fewer kids and we need fewer people to keep the economy rolling. The only real issue is social security funding but no one under 55 really is counting on social security anyway, right? I’m 53 and my whole life people have told me SOcial security is probably going belly up.
Basically I think the whole world should stop having so many kids, and let tech do half the jobs. Then maybe we could have single earner households, retire earlier, etc.

This is literally what China thinks…two years ago they were panicking over their birthrate and projected population decline, but now they are using AI for everything (much more than US) and no longer worry about their population decline (which is supposed to be 65% lower by 2100).

Chinese leadership absolutely still is very worried about their population decline and economic decline. Their peak per-capita GDP was 2023. The country will get old before it gets rich. Their big property developers are insolvent and rely on state banks to give them “loans” they cannot repay, which is driving inflation higher. There is tremendous effort from the Communist Party needed to keep domestic turmoil down.

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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.

It’s amusing that you think CS majors can’t think.

Only Art History majors can think. You need at least 12 courses in Art History before anyone can think.

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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.

Please keep pushing this story. (laugh)
By pushing down supply, my CS well paid graduate will make even more money in future years.

(So much wishful thinking in the humanities world.)

+1 the future is AI. Who do they think supports the AI ecosystems? Art history majors?

DC had 5 CS internship offers for 2026, and one with a 20K signing bonus. And they are not at a T20.

Those who are very good at what they do will be fine, and make bank. Those who are just everyday programmers are the hard hit ones. But, that's no different than an English major who went to an average school.

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Anonymous wrote:So weary of people who don't understand what a college CS degree is and is not.

Really? I pay it no mind.

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