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[quote=Anonymous]The issue isn’t who’s smarter.

The issue is that the students majoring in English because they like the subject are doing something they like. The current supply of good English majors is so low that thise students will end up with a high level of resources and great opportunities.

Smart, enthusiastic CS majors who love what they’re doing will continue to flourish.

But CS departments are strained and probably aren’t doing a great job.

Many of the students coming into CS are just pretending to be interested in computers and tech. They’re interested in money, not intellectual puzzles. They’re not Rubik’s cube or Sudoku fans. They don’t care about topology, symbolic logic or information theory.

Those are the kids with parents who will only pay for a degree in CS or premed fields.

Those students might tough it out and get good grades, and even wiggle into FAANG jobs, but they’re likely to have problems with their careers and to choke FAANG.

Companies should promote work-life balance, but if people go into software development so they can work bankers’ hours, and they aren’t ever filled with a burning passion to do whatever it takes to figure something out or get a project done, because software is just a job for them, not a calling, then that’s what’s going to turn FAANG into the new S&Ls that died in the 1990s.

People who really care about tech will bubble up out of math, physics and philosophy departments and create some kind of new tech playgrounds that shut out the CS lemmings. [/quote]

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