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My Parent doesn't want me doing CS, or CE, because they feel the job market will disappear come 7 years. (lemmy.world)
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Basically Title.
I love CS, I love designing systems, programming, some cyber and math.
The problem is, I am due to admit into CS this year (4 year program). My Parent's will be funding a majority of it (~2 years, + RESP). And one of my parents, thinks CS won't have many jobs come 7 years?
Why? Because AI will take them all (or is more likely to take them all). That AI is expanding at a rapid pace, and they will slowly but surely take the hardware designing jobs, the programming jobs, and pretty much all the jobs except the administration ones. I have a poor time putting into words what I would like to do in the future (cause I love lots of things related to CS) but I say thing a bit on the technical side, and this parent says that if I cant explain it to them than I don't understand it and that they understand (more to me) what will happen to the market due to their age

I am not saying they're wrong to any of this by the way, I'm just looking for advice on if they're right, and if not, why?

I don't think I'll ever give up doing CS because its something I love with all my heart.
But if I'm not able to convince them, they want me to take a gap and get a different degree (in a less likely to be taken job).
I might be rambling here, but I am genuinely soooo lost.

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[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago

My three decades of software engineering experience tells me that getting a degree in CS is still quite worth it and anyone who says otherwise is talking out of their ass.

AI will change things, but not the way the doomsayers think and certainly not the way the bandwagoning idiot CEOs think. It will become a tool, yet another one, in our arsenal. If it replaces humans, then good riddance to the moron CEOs and the companies who decide that.

This is a bit of apples and oranges, but I remember when people lost their shit over npm. And those of us who have been in the field for quite some time are like “wtf is wrong with you people? It’s just a package manager — a concept that has existed for at least two decades” by then.

People jump on the next big thing because they have the attention span of a squirrel and the anxiety and ignorance of one as well.