alt Hacker NewsThe utility of this stuff is largely going away. It’s more just hobbyists now or old timers like me who actually “learned” programming.
There are HS interns at my company who admire me because I lived through a time without AI and I actually had to learn that stuff. I’m not kidding.
At some point there will be no one left to review Claude generated code. I think that will be an interesting time, given our reliance on software based systems...
A linked-in post on CS enrollment at universities:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-pop_has-computer-science...
"In the past two years, the drop was ~20% at UC Berkeley and ~30% at UC Davis, while UC San Diego is the only one still rising."
On the other hand: LeetCode traffic rankings are up, so some people still solve programming problems by hand - or they hope to get a job, by being able to solve them.
https://www.semrush.com/website/leetcode.com/overview/
I think this is a confusing time. It will probably take a while, until things become clearer.