Re:AI is wrecking a fragile job market for college graduates
by happytoexplain on Monday July 28, 2025 @11:10PM
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This isn't viable. This isn't a normal vocational job - it's too abstract/overwhelming for everybody to learn all of it on the job to the needed degree. We need to stop tricking kids into this path. Either CS needs to teach practical skills (I understand things evolve fast, but you're exaggerating, and regardless, an education in the current thing is absolutely invaluable, and also prepares you for learning the next thing on your own), or we need to make it much more clear that another education path is better. Also, boot camps are worthless for this.
Re:AI is wrecking a fragile job market for college graduates
by scarface_74 on Monday July 28, 2025 @11:01PM
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You mean the job they can’t get because companies rather hire someone with experience for a little more money?
Knowledge at the level of kubectl is worthless to the vast majority of grads. It's also extremely time-limited. In 5 years everything will have moved on.
Web apps? What fraction of our grads build web apps? How much will the technology for doing so change in 5 years? 10 years?
Universities are not vocational schools. We teach people to think. Then they learn what the details are on the job. This has always been the role of universities.
If you want something else, go to a coding bootcamp.