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Kurt N. Heiss's avatar

A CS education and degree are profoundly valuable because they provide the foundational knowledge and theoretical understanding that explain why something is done in computing, going far beyond the mere execution of tasks or the generation of code. While AI can certainly generate code quickly, the degree's focus on the 'why' is critically important for true innovation, problem-solving, and adapting to a rapidly changing technological landscape.

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Peter Pae Paester Paez's avatar

Nah, only to a point.

Im an idiot with memory problems so I didnt even finish high school but Ive seen enough to know this only relates to certain jobs. After that its understanding, a, um, field? Just coz you understand some language and know some algos wont mean much when it comes to making certain apps. Ive seen people educateded to the point of stupidity, they cant think beyond the logic they where taught. Ive seen people finish UNI and not know ascii. Im an idiot and have been paid by educated people to solve their problems. Higher education teaches programming but not apis or specific fields. Ask a graduate to make a daw app and watch them stuggle.

The dream is ai kills the need for logic understanding and only understanding a field and for that then to be crushed ( I dream of ai having its own language that we cant understand and dont need to).

The educated put so much worth into that coz they paid for it and thats where their ego finds its worth....but its crap, its all crap, there should only be the goal.

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