this is a good point. Some of the ai companies are trying to hook cs students so they'll only know "dev" as a function of their products. First one's free as they say (the drug dealers).

I agree, that is the great danger that CS students aren't even taught the fundamentals of "computer science" any longer. It would be the equivalent of physics students not learning Newtons laws or e-m-c-squared.

Probably there is an issue with how much there is in CS - each programming language basically represents a different fundamental approach to coding machines. Each paradigm has its application, even COBOL ;)

Perhaps CS has not - yet - found its fundamental rules and approaches. Unlike other sciences that have hard rules and well trodden approaches - the speed of light is fixed but not the speed of a bit.