Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

Re:Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years? by davidgay on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:21PM (#21821459)

When I chose to major in CS, I got a nice letter from the university suggesting that maybe this wasn't the best choice, that too many people were picking this, that it would be worth considering other majors.

This worked - I can't quite remember the numbers, but probably the entering class was 2/3rds the size it would've been otherwise.

And clearly, it was going to be a terrible idea to graduate in Computer Science in 1992, so who can blame them? The field had clearly hit its peak by 1987... (this was in Switzerland, on a 4.5 year degree program)

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Re:Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years? by PlanetRenox on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:05AM (#21822279)

While I really enjoy how you framed that, I want to add that I still do strongly believe that things are going to look much different in 2025. Reports predicting it as the year more than 50% of normal workplace jobs being taken by AI, I believe the goalposts are going to morph into something we do not have the capacity to imagine yet.

I'm a student too similar to op with 1.5 years left to graduate, yesterday I got shivers waiting for my appointment with my advisor. Phone call within seconds of phone call, the receptionist was getting calls about students wanting to change majors into cs.

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Re:Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years? by kmbriedis on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:22AM (#21823191)

Was it a university like ETH Zürich, where anyone can get in but there is a limited number of spots from the second year onwards? Then it really made sense to suggest that

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