File under "old man yells at clouds."

   I think it's worth asking what  a CS degree is for.  Is it
   to teach you how to  code and make you obviously hire-able
   by industry?  Maybe  it's to teach you how  to think about
   data and code?   If you think it's the former,  then AI is
   probably going  to be a  problem for you.  If  the latter,
   it's neutral to somewhat good.

   I've  been hiring  CS  grads for  4  decades (yikes!)  and
   there's  definitely  been  a   shift.   Not  all  existing
   programs are  bad.  Not all  young software devs  are bad.
   But...  the  percentage  of  recent  grads  that  seem  to
   understand  what data  processing  systems  are about  has
   definitely fallen.

   Us  old farts  in industry  must share  some of  the blame
   here.   Our industry  seems  to be  pretty  boom or  bust.
   Someone comes in with a stack of money and tells people to
   build { the web | blockchain | AI | virtual worlds | etc }
   and suddenly  there's a  rush.  At the  start of  the gold
   rush, we're not sure how  to build everything that's going
   to be the next google [[1]] so we fill the room with young
   kids  who have  seen  some recent  tooling  and will  work
   cheap.   We  don't  develop  them.  We  want  them  to  be
   compliant drones  dancing to  a tune played  by a  CTO and
   VP/Eng who got their jobs  because they're the children of
   the fund investors who gave the startup a bunch of money.

   And then  we go back  to Universities and tell  them "OMG!
   Your not bar-raising your grads by teaching them __fill in
   the blank__!" [[2]]

   So... I  don't doubt  it looks like  AI is  destroying the
   degree.   But maybe  it's just  making it  hard to  ignore
   previous problems with the uni to industry pipeline.

   And I didn't  mention the Mythical Man Month  once in this
   comment.  I'm getting better.

   1. I'm not  sure too many people want to  be Google at the
      moment, but  over the last 25  years, they've certainly
      done well.

   2. I'm  intentionally misspelling  "you're" because  in my
      time in industry,  I've found only about  15% of people
      would pass a 7th grade spelling test.