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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People sending their kids off to major in CS with massive price tags should really be smarter about doing the research.  Every major tech CEO is out there telling you NOT to do that.  Every.single.one.  In every chat they have with podcasters or conference fireside chats or general briefings, they are saying the [b]world is changing for entry-level talent in CS[/b], and to skip it altogether.  If you don't want to pay attention, then it's on you.  Internships do not equate to job offers.  Job offers do not equate to actually starting when they say they'll start.  Jensen was recently at the CSIS forum (yesterday!) and again conveyed the exact same message.  Karp, Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Altman, Cook ... all of them are saying the exact same thing!!  Focus away from surfing college admissions stats and insights on how to get into the T20, and instead follow some of these people on major platforms where they are giving you the playbook for what they'll be looking for in hiring talent.  They are not shying away from giving you that insight.  [/quote]

In fairness...folks like Dario Amodei at Anthropic and the CEO of Ford are out saying that 25% of the entire white collar workforce may be replaced by AI.

I think there is a very important distinction here which is that the kids who are able to jump in as the equivalent of 3rd to 5th year employees, and are adept using all the AI tools will in fact be in very high demand.  This is where you will see massive bifurcation even between grads at the same school...the kid who has been coding since 10 and has a huge GitHub portfolio and can hit the ground running with minimal training will have significantly different prospects from the kid who decided to study CS, but is coming into college green.

That's why you see in the WSJ article referenced above that some grads are in huge demand and commanding high salaries.

It will also eliminate the kids who actually aren't that interested in CS, but majored in it because they thought it was the ticket to a good job.[/quote]

There is a clear distinction between an entry-level computer science graduate (whether you view yourself as a 3-5th year employee or not) and someone who comes in with hands-on LLM development experience. A CS degree typically provides strong theory and general software engineering fundamentals, but it does not automatically include practical work with transformers, model fine-tuning, or building LLM-powered systems. Candidates who have direct experience training or integrating large language models bring a specialized, applied skill set—often gained through research, advanced electives, or industry projects—that most new CS graduates do not possess. As a result, the two profiles are viewed differently in hiring, particularly for AI-focused roles where LLM experience is a significant differentiator.[/quote]

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