In my experience, you're both right; the STEM coursework wasn't often directly applicable to day to day programming and the humanities courses didn't impart me

In my experience, you're both right; the STEM coursework wasn't often directly applicable to day to day programming and the humanities courses didn't impart me with any life-changing revelations or attitude adjustments. I feel I'd be just as capable a programmer had I never taken any of them, although the piece of paper is important and the classes were thankfully often enough interesting in their own right.