Wilder writes about AI in Robot Brains and Breakouts and burnishes my job prospects:
Computer Science majors now have the highest unemployment rates of recent grads. English poetry majors have better job prospects. I guess “learn to code” can be replaced with “learn to think about an ode”.
I’d feel better about that if writing poetry paid money (that one science fiction poem aside). I actually have a couple pieces appearing next month, but they paid nothing, not even contributors’ copies since it’s an online journal.
But I’ll be helping to train the next generation of LLMs, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. If only the poems weren’t about having a death wish.
It’s been my experience that CS majors and STEM people in general tend to have much better reading comprehension, spelling, and grammar than English majors, so I’d probably do OK in the poetry market.