A Berkeley professor noted that even top students with 4.0 GPAs aren’t landing jobs, a stark shift from when Berkeley grads had multiple offers. He sees this as irreversible, with tech hiring now favoring senior engineers. AI tools like make senior engineers so productive, juniors are less essential
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A trend towards only established skill is a trend towards calcification and brittleness.
When the next external disruption hits, orgs with only senior people+AI will be hit hard.
Let's get rich now and worry about the future later. That's capitalism.
What is also a possibility is that higher productivity can simply lead to higher production. In software there could certainly be much more software, more customized than currently.
Juniors more likely to trust the output, create worse code and more bugs
Sure, they'll be able to create loads of code, but not experienced with making code maintainable. None of this gets taught in CS degrees.
Also, if they're using AI tools as a crutch, they won't be learning
However, if the goal is to learn to build something for himself, never been a better time to have a CS degree.
Also, CS is basically just math. I apply it to all sorts of things outside of programming!
It's a topical narrative, but I'd say it's too soon to pin the lack of entry-level roles on AI
I'd guess the majority of orgs with eng functions haven't even started formally trialling AI coding assistants, let alone formulating firm strategies e.g. org design and hiring
With each tech hype cycle, things get adopted because engineers like shiny stuff but not experienced enough (either themselves or with the tech) to understand trade offs/what good for and what not good for.
Hence the "golden hammer" approach
those people that say that history repeats itself are fools. we engineered our way out of it. the history of the future is automated.
at no other time in our culture has technology been so revolutionary, so we won't make any of the bubble mistakes.