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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by jjmarr on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:59PM (#47280298)
> If you earned your CS degree (or any degree) before 2022 or so, the value of that degree is going to grow and grow and grow

In my experience, target schools are the only universities now that can make their assignments too hard for AI.

When my university tried that, the assignments were too hard for students. So they gave up.

Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by jasonfarnon on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:09PM (#47282828)
What university is assigning undergrads assignments too hard for AI?
Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by jjmarr on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:31AM (#47284783)
Funnily enough, my Science Fiction class graded like that.

If you didn't have high information density in essays you were torn into. AI was a disadvantage due to verboseness.

Most people dropped the class and prof went on sabbatical.

Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by jasonfarnon on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:48PM (#47293867)
Besides being tough, it's shaping students' writing in a specific direction. That dense style I think of as 19th century English philosophy prose, though I hear it may still be the ideal in parts of Europe.
Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by sam0x17 on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:47PM (#47283551)
This comment would make sense 6 months ago. Now it is much, much, much more likely any given textually answerable problem will be way easier for a bleeding edge frontier AI than a human, especially if you take time into account