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Why Software Consultants Benefit from Liberal Arts Education

by philk10 on 4/7/25, 1:51 PM with 3 comments

• by UncleEntity on 4/7/25, 2:10 PM

  As someone with a liberal arts education that article seemed to be AI generated.

  As someone with a liberal arts education I think the most useful skill I was taught was how to research stuff before the interwebs took over the world. Sure, I did some research using the internet but there simply wasn't the vast amount of knowledge contained there so I had to do stuff like inter-library loans. Now, if I really wanted to, I could just have the robots write an essay on the benefits of a liberal arts education.

• by OutOfHere on 4/7/25, 4:52 PM

  To the extent that the purpose of a liberal arts bachelor's education is to develop more tolerance, it will get you from a starting value of 1/10 up to 3/10. A combined technical liberal arts bachelor's degree may get you to 4/10. A technical master's degree to 6/10. A PhD to 8/10. The rest is up to your curious use of AI. Without tolerance in entertaining differing opinions and theories, the world can be a dark place.

• by user32489318 on 4/7/25, 8:20 PM

  source: trust me bro