Anthropic's $100M to train 10,000 engineers stirs doubts about $400K college degrees
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-03
A quoted tweet claims Anthropic is investing $100M to train 10,000 engineers, asking whether it's another nail in the coffin for the 4-year, $400K college education — noting recent college debt downgrades at Xavier and Wentworth.
robleclerc adds a meta point: X's corpus of future predictions will eventually let us clearly label how good or bad people's forecasts really were — a lot of smart-sounding people will look stupid in retrospect.
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