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Initialized Capital's Kim-Mai Cutler attributes a surge in UC Berkeley CS failure rates to Anthropic's Claude Code

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CS 10 failure rates rose to 35.3% in Spring 2026.

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Students are failing UC Berkeley CS classes at an alarming rate. More than 35% of students failed CS 10, a course described as “a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science.” In the past few semesters, less than 10% of students failed the class.

11:56 AM · Jun 3, 2026

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Many users criticized the surge in UC Berkeley CS failure rates after the Claude launch as resulting from incompetent professors, lowered admissions standards, DEI policies, and AI de-skilling students.

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