| ▲ | The computer science major is in trouble. At Berkeley, it's complicated(alumni.berkeley.edu) | |
| 3 points by PopAlongKid 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ||
| ▲ | jdw64 8 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Wow, but it's surprising that even those prestigious computer science graduates have to worry about employment. Personally, I think current LLMs have clear limits, so would engineering majors be at risk? That's a bit of a difficult point. Because LLMs are good at writing code, but as complexity increasingly grows, if a person handles it, the number of lines one individual has to deal with will grow exponentially. To maintain that or find bugs, you'd need major-specific knowledge. After all, building a program is fundamentally about controlling complexity. There's a slightly difficult point here. It's true that frontier AIs are good at coding, but once you start running agents at a large scale, token efficiency varies depending on whether a human intervenes or not. Ultimately, if you compare current token costs, isn't hiring a junior person cheaper? Is the US a different situation? Thinking about the API prices of GPT 6 or Fable makes me think that even more. | ||