I always wanted to pursue CS as my majors but due to the recent news of SWE getting fired changed my mind

Now I’m confused about what to opt for my bachelors. Should I take CS or a Management degree?

  • Zangoose@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If you’ve always wanted to pursue CS, do CS.

    Honestly, there’s a lot of hype around AI. Companies are trying to figure out how to incorporate LLMs into their workflows, but no one has meaningfully succeeded yet past using it as an automated StackOverflow (which is usually wrong or outdated, just like StackOverflow). Yeah, startups will claim that things like cursor have saved them hundreds or thousands of working hours, but then they get burned their AIs leave in their API keys and code security flaws into their services. In the best case, they’ve created a nightmare codebase that will raise the turnover rates for their software developers significantly.

    If you are actually passionate about CS, get a CS degree and don’t use AI for problem solving. Maybe debugging/concept explanations if it gets better, but don’t let it solve problems for you. Designing solutions, to problems, critically thinking about their strengths/weaknesses, and working through them is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach you how to do, so don’t throw that away by having AI do your work for you.