It's a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major'yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants from newly minted programmers who can't find work. On one such YouTube video, the top comment reads: 'Your first mistake is not being born earlier.' Students, meanwhile, are fleeing the field. Undergraduate enrollment in computer science dipped by more than 8 percent last year, representing the largest absolute decline across any major in several years. The falloff at the graduate level'14 percent'was even more severe. Learning to code was supposed to be a ticket to a good tech job. It wasn't just Silicon Valley that spread the gospel of computer science: 'Support tha american dream n make coding available to EVERYONE!!' Snoop Dogg once tweeted. Now the decision to major in CS is more complicated. Nowhere has AI refashioned work as dramatically as it has for programmers. Coding bots have...
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