For years, the blue collars have been told to learn to code because that is where the future is. Well, something might have interfered with that future.
Computer science professor at a major state university just finished the worst faculty meeting in 32 years of academia Department head dropped the placement statistics like a bomb at 2:47 PM on a Wednesday 2023: 89% placement rate within 6 months of graduation 2024: 67% placement rate 2025: 34% placement rate 2026 projections: 12% placement rate 312 CS majors graduating this spring. Industry contacts saying maybe 40 will find work. The dean wants to know why enrollment is still climbing while job prospects crater Faculty sitting there like deer in headlights because what the fuck do you tell 19-year-olds taking out $40k per year in loans Half the curriculum is already obsolete. Teaching data structures while companies replace entire engineering teams with Claude and Cursor. One professor suggested pivoting to "AI collaboration skills" and got laughed out of the room Another said we should warn students. Department head said that would "damage program reputation and university revenue" So they keep taking tuition money from kids who will graduate into a wasteland Career services still posts those bullshit salary averages from 2022 when new grads were getting $140k offers Now the same companies are hiring 2 senior engineers with AI tools instead of 12 junior developers Every CS professor knows their students are walking into a meat grinder But the university needs those enrollment numbers to hit budget targets They're literally selling degrees that lead to DoorDash driving
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A "CS degree" is code for you're screwed.
So whose fault is it, the school’s or the kids’? Caveat emptor
It’s probably more H1Bs than AI at this point.
How about a universal check and let ai do all the work
They will still need builders, plumbers, and electricians. The trade skills will be gold in the years to come.
Programming languages are like learning any other language. If you wait until you are an adult to learn them then you’ve waited too late. You never needed a CS degree.
Jeet code written by H1Bs is universally derided as trash. It’s the reason everything from Windows 11 to Android is such bloated garbage now.
AI “vibe coding” is based partially on jeet code and partially on whatever else could be scraped from github to train the model.
The point is that truly gifted software engineers, and SE’s with security cleaeances, will always be in-demand. But the prospects for junior devs are pretty low now that most low-level tasks can be automated now. Going to be hard for any Gen Alpha’s to get their foot in the door anywhere without some serious skills and an existing portfolio. Thankfully for them, contributions to FOSS always count and are always needed!
Electric "technology" will be the ultimate downfall of civilization. It's entire purpose is to make the human brain unneeded.
It wasnt just any “blue collars” that Obama and the leftist media told to “learn to code” it was coal miners. Well the AI boom that is taking the leftists jobs is also demonatrating the need for get this… more coal!
The other jobs were manufacturing and DC let that happen by not doing jack ahit the last 50 years to make it so easy for American companies to offshore manufacturing
There are a lot of changes going on. Computer programming, software companies are just a few who will under go change due to AI. If people are waiting on institutions (ie, universities) to help them out, they will lose every time. Universities job is to secure as much government funding as possible, not help students obtain careers. They are employment agencies for the academic world (tenure). Professors focus on publishing while GAs teach. Professors want to indoctrinate their narrow views into the students which has nothing to do with furthering their education. The graduates of today are not what the graduates of yesterday are. If you do not direct your own life, no one else will do it for you. The dumber you are, the more likely you will be taken advantage of.
Learn plumbing, or electrician skills, and make much more money.
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