For students who are interested in majoring in AI

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the best job in tech is a PM - and prompt engineering will be critical skill for that role going forward despite what our resident lax bro believes

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Resident lax bro?

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Don't major in AI. Don't chase trends. Only if truly interested in cs

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Anonymous wrote:Don't major in AI. Don't chase trends. Only if truly interested in cs

Well tech bros tell everyone the only jobs left are the ones using AI.

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Anonymous wrote:the best job in tech is a PM - and prompt engineering will be critical skill for that role going forward despite what our resident lax bro believes

prompt engineering isn't a thing anymore. companies expect all their workers to be able to "prompt" AI now.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-1961b054?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdq-f6k2uK9X4YLllt3Ywy4iR8lYWqxtT_Ll8NN1Ou0hgPjh4bS3Xvr&gaa_ts=699f7016&gaa_sig=MRvhis_K-ZXDtn7qZpWgWfIP-_uW0BldXqcE2s89DW7d6TvdsOAUgjZNKv_uLI5ZPjKpjminkH91oVJLk1R48w%3D%3D

Two years ago, prompt engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any company’s “AI Whisperer.”

Now, the role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.

The concept of prompt engineers was to have an expert crafting the exact right inputs to generate the best responses out of large language models. But today, AI models are much better at intuiting user intent and they can ask follow-up questions when they’re unclear on it.

Also, companies say they are training a wide range of employees across functions on how best to prompt and use models, so there’s not much of a need for a single person to hold this expertise.

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Major in Data Science or Data Analytics. Applicable in more diverse ways and includes study of AI.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't major in AI. Don't chase trends. Only if truly interested in cs

Well tech bros tell everyone the only jobs left are the ones using AI.

Why in the world would you believe them?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the best job in tech is a PM - and prompt engineering will be critical skill for that role going forward despite what our resident lax bro believes

prompt engineering isn't a thing anymore. companies expect all their workers to be able to "prompt" AI now.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-1961b054?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdq-f6k2uK9X4YLllt3Ywy4iR8lYWqxtT_Ll8NN1Ou0hgPjh4bS3Xvr&gaa_ts=699f7016&gaa_sig=MRvhis_K-ZXDtn7qZpWgWfIP-_uW0BldXqcE2s89DW7d6TvdsOAUgjZNKv_uLI5ZPjKpjminkH91oVJLk1R48w%3D%3D

Two years ago, prompt engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any company’s “AI Whisperer.”

Now, the role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.

The concept of prompt engineers was to have an expert crafting the exact right inputs to generate the best responses out of large language models. But today, AI models are much better at intuiting user intent and they can ask follow-up questions when they’re unclear on it.

Also, [b]companies say they are training a wide range of employees across functions on how best to prompt and use models, so there’s not much of a need for a single person to hold this expertise.[/b]

This. Almost everyone in my company is pretty much expected to do this.

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Even better, professor is AI

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There will be many "AI" companies that fail. CS remains the most closely associated major with AI but as its graduates are discovering that hardly guarantees employment as the sector eats itself.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/c3-ai-stock-layoffs-loss.html

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Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

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Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

https://x.com/nalinmehta/status/2026897274056614077

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Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peter Thiel says AI is bad for the "math people" and that the "word people" will be more in demand.....

AI can generate "words" as easily as it can generate code.

Nope. Not real writing....its still quite bad (even Opus)......it can help you start sure....but a large base in humanities/liberal arts will absolutely help here...

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Anonymous wrote:There will be many "AI" companies that fail. CS remains the most closely associated major with AI but as its graduates are discovering that hardly guarantees employment as the sector eats itself.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/c3-ai-stock-layoffs-loss.html

A lot of these companies are using AI as an excuse for laying people off as they restructure and/or because they over hired during the pandemic. They all want to show that they are AI leaders and how using AI allows them to cut back on the workforce. Obviously, no one knows the real numbers, but IMO, there is some of this AI washing going on. There's also, of course, the crazy economy with the illegal tariffs that's impacting businesses.

Entry level today for CS majors looks a lot different than entry level even 5 years ago. College grads must know how to use AI. This is in part why the older SWE are being laid off; they are less apt to use AI in their work.

CS is going through a change, and every tech revolution causes dips and highs in hiring.

-signed someone who works with FAANGs and worked in Silicon Valley for 20 years, and whose DC is a math/CS major who had 5 internship offers this summer, including at a FAANG and quant firms. They are at a state flagship. Most of the CS majors they know also have some kind of internship lined up.