Anonymous
02/27/2026 11:29
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Anonymous wrote:NP
None of us know what the job market will look like in 5-10 years. I work in fintech and we don't know 2 years out, but what I do know is:
1) This latest college graduate class (2025-2026) is experiencing the highest underemployment in a decade
2) Among those making an income, 40-50% are in a job unrelated to their college degree
3) Many are in jobs like Instacart drivers, retail, or 3 month temp jobs with no benefits/healthcare
What this means (one person's opinion; you may disagree):
- Don't go into debt to send your kids to college. Definitely do not saddle them with debt. They could be unemployed and in debt in 4 years. You and they are going to need the liquid asset cushion to weather this coming tsunami. Credit crunch is also quietly returning (look it up; it's here). DO NOT take out a second mortgage on your home or your business to fund college when there are so many great in-state schools.
- Don't force your kids to be someone they are not to "major in AI". The people building AI are 28-50 year olds now with Phds so your high school senior is already too late. But your kids can learn to adopt AI in everything they do, which could be gardening, woodworking, music, filmmaking, fishing...let them be themselves and focus on their passion, best if it's a human high-touch hobby and industry. People whose job involve being in front of the computer 24/7 right now are most likely to be replaced by AI. Let your kids focus on their craft and go deep. Winemakers, bakers, dogwalkers, airline pilots, owners of a knitting store, broadway actors...these are people who won't be replaced.
Thank you. It has been a while hearing some honest feedback in DCUM.
Anonymous
02/27/2026 11:17
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
NP
None of us know what the job market will look like in 5-10 years. I work in fintech and we don't know 2 years out, but what I do know is:
1) This latest college graduate class (2025-2026) is experiencing the highest underemployment in a decade
2) Among those making an income, 40-50% are in a job unrelated to their college degree
3) Many are in jobs like Instacart drivers, retail, or 3 month temp jobs with no benefits/healthcare
What this means (one person's opinion; you may disagree):
- Don't go into debt to send your kids to college. Definitely do not saddle them with debt. They could be unemployed and in debt in 4 years. You and they are going to need the liquid asset cushion to weather this coming tsunami. Credit crunch is also quietly returning (look it up; it's here). DO NOT take out a second mortgage on your home or your business to fund college when there are so many great in-state schools.
- Don't force your kids to be someone they are not to "major in AI". The people building AI are 28-50 year olds now with Phds so your high school senior is already too late. But your kids can learn to adopt AI in everything they do, which could be gardening, woodworking, music, filmmaking, fishing...let them be themselves and focus on their passion, best if it's a human high-touch hobby and industry. People whose job involve being in front of the computer 24/7 right now are most likely to be replaced by AI. Let your kids focus on their craft and go deep. Winemakers, bakers, dogwalkers, airline pilots, owners of a knitting store, broadway actors...these are people who won't be replaced.
None of us know what the job market will look like in 5-10 years. I work in fintech and we don't know 2 years out, but what I do know is:
1) This latest college graduate class (2025-2026) is experiencing the highest underemployment in a decade
2) Among those making an income, 40-50% are in a job unrelated to their college degree
3) Many are in jobs like Instacart drivers, retail, or 3 month temp jobs with no benefits/healthcare
What this means (one person's opinion; you may disagree):
- Don't go into debt to send your kids to college. Definitely do not saddle them with debt. They could be unemployed and in debt in 4 years. You and they are going to need the liquid asset cushion to weather this coming tsunami. Credit crunch is also quietly returning (look it up; it's here). DO NOT take out a second mortgage on your home or your business to fund college when there are so many great in-state schools.
- Don't force your kids to be someone they are not to "major in AI". The people building AI are 28-50 year olds now with Phds so your high school senior is already too late. But your kids can learn to adopt AI in everything they do, which could be gardening, woodworking, music, filmmaking, fishing...let them be themselves and focus on their passion, best if it's a human high-touch hobby and industry. People whose job involve being in front of the computer 24/7 right now are most likely to be replaced by AI. Let your kids focus on their craft and go deep. Winemakers, bakers, dogwalkers, airline pilots, owners of a knitting store, broadway actors...these are people who won't be replaced.
Anonymous
02/27/2026 10:54
Subject: Re:For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Anonymous wrote:Hottest job in tech is writing?
https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2
And what will happen when AI becomes more ubiquitous? They won't need a large comms team anymore to evangelize AI internally.
Anonymous
02/27/2026 10:52
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....
Thiel is a lawyer, not a SWE.
Thiel is also batsh(t crazy.
Anonymous
02/27/2026 10:28
Subject: Re:For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Hottest job in tech is writing?
https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2
Anonymous
02/27/2026 06:47
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Dorsey had to get radical, Block stock has been in steady decline.
Anonymous
02/27/2026 06:30
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Yikes! Just......yikes!!!!
Anonymous
02/27/2026 06:27
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
They know the guillotine is a real possibility once the revolution kicks in.
Https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/dorsey-block-layoffs-ai-embolden-ceos
Https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/dorsey-block-layoffs-ai-embolden-ceos
Anonymous
02/26/2026 19:51
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Anonymous wrote:Jack Dorsey just laid off half of his workforce an hour ago on Twitter/X.
It’s happening now.
Got that bunker ready?
Anonymous
02/26/2026 19:50
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
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.....
Thiel is a lawyer, not a SWE.
Idiot. He’s a VC investor in tech.
I'm aware idiot.
Anonymous
02/26/2026 19:49
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
I got a B.A. in AskJeeves in 1997. Has not aged well.
Anonymous
02/26/2026 19:44
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
"Majoring in AI" might yield some good short-term job prospects for some new grads. But if a student mostly focuses on current tech, it's shortsighted. Especially in this field, new tech will always come along, leaving your old skills in the dust.
Probably the most successful long-term AI-adjacent careers will come out of having a broader knowledge of sociology, political science, history, psychology, business, and ecology on top of comp-sci skills ... plus the ability to read, write, and communicate effectively with other humans.
Probably the most successful long-term AI-adjacent careers will come out of having a broader knowledge of sociology, political science, history, psychology, business, and ecology on top of comp-sci skills ... plus the ability to read, write, and communicate effectively with other humans.
Anonymous
02/26/2026 18:11
Subject: For students who are interested in majoring in AI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....
Thiel is a lawyer, not a SWE.
Idiot. He’s a VC investor in tech.