Article: In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

more and more Americans are turning away from religion. Religious majors make the least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Nice. I agree with you (and the author) 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

Religion is so outdated and past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

Religion is so outdated and past.

I’m sarcasm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

Religion is so outdated and past.

Yeah, religion plays no significant role in the contemporary world. For example, you never hear about a religion-driven event/situation/problem that will affect more than a few people. {This is SARCASM}

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

Religion is so outdated and past.

Wait till all the thousands of able-bodied, fighting age men crossing the border into the United States force Sharia Law on us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

From a professor: Surveys are not accurate measures of learning outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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!

Having rich parents is always a career booster.

ChatGPT has very rich parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

CS majors are not leaning "coding" like kids at summer camp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Mine is a humanities major with a heavy load of STEM courses, just focused on interesting courses, didn't bother to double major or collect minors. Probably learned way more than most STEM majors with standard load.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine other majors

Computers can’t be clergy, Religion is a safe major.

Religion is also a lucrative business.

[Anonymous]

There is so much more to CS than just coding.

[Anonymous]

If you were getting a university CS degree at a good school fo “learn to code” you were doing it wrong. Actually colleges are doing it wrong because it is hard to learn to code in college if you are not a cs major. But cs is about algorithms and a logical way of thinking that ai will not replace. If that isn’t of interest happily you can learn to code with chat gpt now. At least in theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

This is true at really good universities. Hopefully also true at less good schools as well.