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When people say that the tech market will bounce back up for CS graduates are they been delusion? People seem to have this religious concept that the tech sector always bounces back. It this copium? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] MoodyPotato@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's true there are top performers.

to your points\

Graduates have consistently learned more on the job than in school even before GPT\
Exceptional doesn't mean top company placement. Many exceptional people fall between the cracks.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes I learned how to be a professional on the job. But I had taken on hard problems that I didn't know how to solve at first and figured them out myself, just as part of being a lonely nerd.

If you ask gpt to figure everything out for you (which I believe is currently possible in a typical undergrad program), you won't even have that baseline of having learned to unstick yourself, which is the foundation.

[–] MoodyPotato@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I promise there is a younger person who feels the same way. A lot of this is personality. They were saying the same things back when calculators were introduced.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think the difference is that you couldn't ride a calculator to get a bachelor's degree in a "stem" field, and I think you can now.

There are more useless cs grads than ever.

[–] noodles@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Depends what the grade structure is like, in my one college CS class homework could probably have been GPT'd (didn't exist yet) but tests were 75% of your grade and were handwritten in a proctored hall. Mostly they involved pseudocode and showing knowledge of data structures and algorithms rather than specific coding requirements. That couldn't be GPT'd, at least not with competent proctors and a time limit, so you couldn't pass without some competence even if the specific coding syntax went over your head.