What productive thing have humanity majors produced again?

student Jodie Archer developed a computer model that can predict New York Times bestsellers. Her soon-to-be published research landed her a top job with Apple iBooks and may revolutionise the publishing industry

That's computer science, engineering, not humanities.

Basically what this sounds like to me is "people don't need an education to actually do something in their field, why don't humanities majors just be handed jobs because they are making things in other fields?

Simple, a humanities major can get skills in a field where jobs are needed, where there are productive reasons for actions, and go there. Colleges have liberal arts for this reason, ensuring that those going into engineering, CS, STEM, have a more wide background of knowledge.

And, even then, the internet does a far better job of teaching and diversifying what a person can know. My knowledge of so many things only exists thanks to reddit, random pages, hearing things from all sorts of people, from all sorts of places, in all sorts of fields.

The scope of human knowledge exists in our pockets. We don't need a building an a teacher to expose us to the world anymore, the humanities are dead for all those willing to actually use what is at their disposal.