Re: They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can't find a job

Anonymous <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jan 2026 20:26:41 -0500
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Mitchell Holman wrote:
> Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>> Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote in news:10ielt4$10mkp$1
>>>>> @news.tcpreset.net:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>> Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Larry Parker <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Stanford computer science graduates are discovering their
>>>>>>>>>> degrees
>>>>> no
>>>>>>>>>> longer guarantee jobs as AI coding tools now outpace
>>>>>>>>>> entry-level programmers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Tech companies are replacing ten junior developers with just
>>>>>>>>>> two experienced engineers and an AI agent capable of
>>>>>>>>>> equivalent productivity.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Facing a weaker job market, recent graduates are turning to
>>>>>>>>>> master’s programs, less prestigious employers, and startup
>>>>>>>>>> ventures to survive.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden
>>>>>>>>>> ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze,
>>>>>>>>>> recent graduates say.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as
>>>>>>>>>> they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top
>>>>>>>>>> university in America.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn’t yet been released
>>>>>>>>>> upon
>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> world. Today, AI can code better than most humans.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Top tech companies just don’t need as many fresh graduates.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-19/they-graduate
>>>>>>>>>> d-
>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>> -s tanford-due-to-ai-they-cant-find-job
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>          Watch for the blame-the-victim conservatives
>>>>>>>>> to claim they "picked the wrong degree course"
>>>>>>>>> and "they should have kept up with the market"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or they could simply NOT go to university in the first place.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          You think high school is all the education
>>>>>>> anyone needs? Seriously?
>>>>
>>>> With that statement, you are implicitly admitting that the entire
>>>> K-12 public school system is worse than useless, and serves only to
>>>> piss away trillions of taxpayer dollars.
>>>
>>>
>>>         What is your alternative?
>>
>> Already provided.
>>
>>>>>> The public school system doesn't educate, and should be
>>>>>> eliminated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         We need presidents who only went to
>>>>> private schools and thus got a "proper"
>>>>> education. Like Barak Obama.
>>>>
>>>> Private schools in general share the structure of how public schools
>>>> operate.
>>>>
>>>> Children should be home schooled.
>>>
>>>     
>>>        Grand, assuming every household can
>>> afford to have a parent staying home all
>>> day.
>>
>> Dismantle all the economic scams and left wing repression, and the
>> cost of housing, medical care and education will plummet.
> 
> 
>       Funny how the rightwing millionaires
> who can afford to home school don't do it.

Irrelevant.

>>>>    At the beginning of biological
>>>> adolescence, they can take a test that separates the top 1/3rd in
>>>> intelligence from the rest. That 1/3rd is eligible to go to
>>>> something resembling elite boarding high schools. Only the top 1/3rd
>>>> of THOSE students graduate, with the top ten percent of them being
>>>> eligible for elite education at a university.
>>>
>>>
>>>        You mean elitist. Even Bush admitted he was
>>> only a "C-average" student whild attending elite
>>> private schools because of his parents infulence.
>>
>> Ivy League graduates today are even dumber.
> 
> 
>       Case in point, Trump/Vance/Clarence Thomas.

The literal shit from any one of those three men has more brain power
than you.

>>>> Suffice it to say, Obama never would have gotten into high school
>>>> under such a system. Most people would rely on apprenticeships after
>>>> homeschooling, and then internships.
>>>
>>>
>>>        OBama made it to top rank of scholarship,
>>> the Harvard Law Review, with no help from a
>>> rich daddykins or "legacy admissions". Bush's
>>> grads were so bad even the University of Texas
>>> law school rejected him.
>>
>> Obama's family had government connections,
> 
> 
>      Indeed. Proof?



>>   and Obama himself somehow
>> got a degree from Columbia without ever showing up.
>>
> 
> 
>       Obama somehow managed to be in the
> top of his class in all his schools. It's
> a conspiracy, I tell you!

No, just massive amounts of affirmative-action.