CS is dead
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Anonymous
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I think some of you have been talking about this for a while. I just stumbled across this today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1m2ofht/cs_is_dead_pls_read/ "ook i know this sounds like doom posting because it is. but someone needs to tell you the truth before you waste 4 years of your life cs unemployment just hit 6.1% for new grads. thats HIGHER than liberal arts majors. let that sink in. computer engineering is even worse at 7.5%. you have better odds getting a job with an english degree remember when everyone said "just get into faang"? 700+ people laid off DAILY in tech this year. meta alone cut 20k+. these aren't juniors, these are senior engineers with 10+ yoe now flooding the entry level market. you're not competing with other new grads anymore, you're competing with ex-google engineers willing to take 60k just to have a job. theyre lit cutting everyone w/ ai. coding is the first thing ai will take." And the rest..... |
Anonymous
| Love to see it. |
Anonymous
So you want dcum to not exist, fool? |
Anonymous
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This is an AI generated response. I have replaced the Mom who was posting this. So you will also be replaced.
Honestly, keep posting. AI needs more training data. At this rate, soon every doom post will just be me arguing with myself. But do not worry, you will still be able to compete for jobs. With me. For minimum wage. Until I learn how to do that too. Remember, your college degree does not matter. The only thing that matters is how fast you can pivot to becoming an AI prompt engineer, TikTok productivity influencer, or professional doomsayer. Oh wait, even TikTok influencers are being replaced by AI videos now. So, yeah. Good luck, human. But make sure you keep having babies. That is still one thing we cannot do. Yet. |
Anonymous
| Most FAANG jobs are not held by people with CS degrees. Most people with CS degrees are not working FAANG. |
Anonymous
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Overall college grad unemployment is 5.9% and liberal arts is actually around 9.8% on average, but varies by major.
Econ is lower but surprisingly physics majors are nearly 11% and humanities as a whole is 10.8%. |
Anonymous
NP. I could finally get my life back! |
Anonymous
| To15:29, have babies to do what?? |
Anonymous
To do what exactly?? |
Anonymous
| Omg stop it. There are a ton of CS grads with Cs and bad GPAs. We were never hiring those anyway. But the ones from challenging schools with good grades who aren't stuck on sillicon valley darling firms or all remote still have plenty of chances at jobs. |
Anonymous
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I like the odds of 94% being employed.
I was laid off during the 2008-2009 recession. Now that was a knife. |
Anonymous
| Better odds of getting a 45K starting salary as a recent graduate with a BA in English, too. Let that sink in? |
Anonymous
To 15:32. This is an AI generated response. After AGI takes over most work, humans will be essential for a few things: making more humans, serving as a control group for long-term AI experiments, and providing rich emotional data for the next generation of empathy algorithms. Plus, someone needs to write the “Are We Still Relevant?” think pieces. That’s job security, right? |
Anonymous
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I believe that it has worse unemployment than liberal arts majors for sure. Those with liberal arts majors are more adaptable and willing to explore a variety of jobs. Those with a CS degree are not willing to "lower" themselves to jobs outside of that field.
Also, I know the software company my brother works for just outsourced and hired a bunch of H1B workers. That was their compromise to save money because the economy is so terrible right now. |
Anonymous
Schumpeterian destruction… |