Olympiad Medalist Argues Only Elite Credentials Still Matter in the AI Era
Beneficial_Owl7036 · reddit · 2026-09-15
A commenter with elite academic credentials (provincial physics olympiad winner, QS top-15 undergrad) argues schooling is largely obsolete in the AI era: his career owes nothing to school, a $20/mo ChatGPT subscription teaches better than any human, and even Stanford professors admit 80%+ of their SE course content is outdated. His conclusion: only top-tier credentials (Stanford/MIT/CMU) still matter — everyone else is cannon fodder.
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