Article: In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major.
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Anonymous
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Has anyone been able to read the Atlantic article "So Much for ‘Learn to Code’
In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major"? I'm interested in hearing some thoughts as I look for a place to read it without subscription. |
Anonymous
| Imagine other majors |
Anonymous
| In the age of AI, everything is subject to disruption except for CS/engineering degree from top 20 CS/engineering schools and much better if from Stanford, Berkeley, CMU or MIT. |
Anonymous
| Don’t overpay for a degree or take out student loans and you can study whatever you like. |
Anonymous
| The sky is always falling |
Anonymous
No, sky-net is rising. |
Anonymous
From the article: "Rather, the turmoil presented by AI could signal that exactly what students decide to major in is less important than an ability to think conceptually about the various problems that technology could help us solve." Which has always been true, and is why the "learn to code / humanities are pointless" rhetoric is so annoying. |
Anonymous
The fact is that humanities majors have always learned less in college than STEM majors. Survey after survey points this out. Business majors learn the least. |
Anonymous
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Basic programming has been outsourced for many years, and can be taken over by AI. But, AI has a long way to go for more complex programming. So, no, not worried.
-signed someone who works in the tech space and is a parent of a CS major |
Anonymous
They spend two years studying liberal arts, then the next two years studying their major, just like STEM and humanities majors. A lot of majors don't use what they learned academically in college after they graduate. But business majors are exposed to business concepts, enough so that when they enter the workforce, they aren't completely ignorant about what goes into running a business. -signed a BBA major |
Anonymous
But, if you jam a kid who isn’t really into CS into CS, at CMU, the results probably won’t be that great, either. |
Anonymous
| "Coding" is only a small part of programming. I do it for a living. Learn to code was always a joke, because teaching someone to write doesn't make them a novelist. |
Anonymous
As someone who's 20 years out of college and who went to a fancy private school that sent plenty of middling and even bottom of class kids to various expensive but decent colleges where they studied business, many if not most of them are doing very well, financially. So who cares what they learned in college! |
Anonymous
In this case, I would think the B.S. in Comp Sci is an excellent major, because the classes focus on concepts and theory, not programming. Am I mistaken? I'm not at all a STEM person and this is just my impression. |
Anonymous
Learned what, though? I've come across too many STEM majors who never learned how to write cogently, for example. |