Major Shift - Durable College Majors in 2026 | Ep. 100

Mar 6, 2026

AI-driven policy and corporate shakeups reshaping jobs and college major demand. Controversial agentic tools that submit coursework spark academic integrity alarms. New data on teen AI use and major-specific labor outcomes highlight winners and losers. Local funding quirks and projects aiming to preserve human connection in youth development round out the conversation.

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INSIGHT

Anthropic's Model Exit Interview Experiment

Anthropic performed an exit interview with its deprecated Opus 3 model and launched Claude's Corner to publish unedited essays from the retired system.
Matt described the practice as model welfare and noted Anthropic kept Opus 3 available via paid API per the model's stipulation about no editorial control.

INSIGHT

Block Layoffs Framed As AI Efficiency Move

Jack Dorsey cut ~4,000 jobs at Block and explicitly attributed the restructuring to AI enabling smaller, flatter teams.
Liz and Matt framed this as possibly the first major workforce reduction legitimately driven by AI, not just pandemic overhiring.

ANECDOTE

Einstein Agent That Could Complete Courses

Adveit Paliwal launched Einstein, an agentic AI that could log into Canvas to watch lectures, post, and submit assignments, initially marketed to expose credential problems.
After a cease-and-desist from Instructure, the founder rebranded it as a personal tutor while educators warned about AI-created loops undermining human learning.

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