This doesn’t hold up. Schools can’t teach everything, especially in a field where innovation happens in the workplace, not the classroom. Should I have learned about LLMs when I was an undergraduate 20 years ago?

This is just further proof that university educations are still not job training. The sooner we disabuse ourselves of that perception the better off society will be.

Higher education is about creating a breadth of knowledge, not specific marketable skills. CompSci is a research field, not job training.

If your friend wanted to learn specific job skills a technical college would be the appropriate setting.

I realize this misperception is perpetuated by the job market but I’m still not surprised at the education provided by UCI and don’t fault them for providing it.