Getting a computer science degree used to be a stable path for any college student looking to secure a tech job right after graduation.
With the proliferation of AI tools like GitHub Copilot, tech companies may not need to hire as many software engineers as before since leaner teams can reasonably complete the same amount of code.
“As an industry, it’s going to shrink, and only people who really understand what they’re doing are going to survive,” Aditya Swami, who heads product development efforts at Singaporean venture capital firm Hatcher+, told Business Insider in July.
Students thinking of switching majors in the face of the AI revolution may want to hold their horses. Computer science professors that BI spoke to said that earning a degree in the field is just as, if not more, valuable in the age of AI.
AI has made computer science more, not less, important
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