Is a Computer Science Degree WORTHLESS 🤯? (in the age of AI)

I just finished my CSE Bachelors a few weeks ago, and I agree. Chat gpt is wrong a lot. If you don't know the fundamentals, you wouldn't recognize that. Plus, technology is always changing, and LLM's will always be a little behind the latest stuff. I took a class where we used Elixir with the Phoenix framework, and ChatGPT didn't know much about the latest version.

I’m 39 and have a solid job now but I’ll be stuck where I live. I’ve been considering going back to school and finishing finally my bachelor’s but not sure in what field. Seriously have been considering CS but don’t know if my brain is capable anymore! Plus, it’s hard finding good answers and good advice. Your video has helped motivate me a little but the future of the field still seems a bit uncertain.

Thankss!! This video helped me select my major in school...❤

from the perspective of a self-taught programmer, I think that when faced with a problem, whether it's ChatGPT or StackOverflow, you still need to use the right terminology to (hopefully) get an answer that works.
Of course what you also need, is logical thinking, problem solving skills, as well as being able to take an example or concept (from whatever source), and adapt it to what you need.
Oh, and I think a Computer Science degree is always going to be a useful and valuable thing to have.

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So, I completed a bachelor's degree and graduated in 2014 with a computer science degree. I learned all the fundamentals, but I specialized a bit more in network security, which I found rather interesting, along with other coding and programming aspects. Whether a bachelor's degree in computer science helps in the job market really depends. Some organizations, particularly government types, require a bachelor's degree in a computer science or IT-related program, along with membership in organizations like MIET or similar. In the private sector, it's not always necessary, especially in smaller organizations, where experience matters more. Having a bachelor's degree in an IT-related field can give you a slight edge, but in the IT industry, there's a lot of debate about the value of certifications versus degrees, as they are not equivalent due to different exam structures. These are just my thoughts on the matter.

I was in IT for most of my adult life. I’m now retired. I urge you to complete your degree. I am sure it will be useful. Also brush up on linear algebra, calculus and statistics. All the best.

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One of the most logical videos I have ever seen. This girl is Magic.

I think "low tech" tech jobs will have to be more technical. Like, I'm surprised that cybersecurity professionals don't even have to learn to code, or how a modern system works. At my job, cybersecurity people help to fill out forms on risk assessment, while the actual security engineers have a cloud infrastructure background and had to teach themselves about the security aspect.
Like you said, I think you'll have to have a more technical understanding to effectively use AI in your tech role.

On the contrary, since AI can write code anyway, having degree will give you a proper edge over bootcamps/self-taughts when it comes to understanding of the system

For actual computer science, sure it is - but a lot of what people would want to do in tech has very little to do with what is covered in CS academia. "This is computer science - why would you be coding? Now, lets talk about circuits..."

I believe that having a fundamental understanding of how stuff works will be valuable in the 21st century.
You might learn how stuff works at a fundamental level by taking physics, electrical engineering or computer science. A math or physics degree might be useful for the intimidation factor. Know your applied math (or at least how to get things done on a computer). I would suggest taking intro level courses in the social sciences. I used to think economics was helpful, economics has sort of a barbell utility; the intro (first year) level is useful and econometrics is useful, but everything else is if not a waste of time at least a high opportunity cost when one could be studying other subjects. The underlying human behavior paradigm of economics is too narrow (study some intro psychology). Statistics is very useful, but again the underlying paradigm is too narrow, though Bayesian statistics will continue to grow in importance.

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Back in 70s and &0s, lots of people believed that coding or application development would be done by high school kids, not college graduates. 40 years later, college graduates are still dominate the tech industry. Now people believe IA will soon replace college graduates in CS. I would think that AI will replace other jobs first before CS jobs be replaced. Who will be continuing AI development? It may still have a long way to go for AI to be able to develop AI without human involvement. That human involvements are CS/tech jobs.

i am an electrical engineer and don't know much about computers and IT. would you please tell me that learning data science is easy to learn or you recommend something else to earn money with?

I have just one thing to say :
"...we should ride the waves..."

I’m thinking of making my major a double, business and Comp sci with a focus on AI. would that be a good idea?

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All the people who fearmonger about AI don't know what AI is at this point. Custom solutions are still necessary. Analysis is till necessary, and the design choices for the analysis as well. Basically computer scientists will be to AI later what economists are to companies.
The only problem right now is that people don't realize this, and so everyone is saying "What do I need an economist for?". A tectonic event has to happen for everyone to become scared, and then they'll all start hiring computer scientists. Tectonic event like when GDPR came up for Facebook in the U.S. senate, and suddenly every single company reacted to it.

People say that AI is still not very good at writing code, but people dont consider that a GPT model will be trained to code and we know its very close to doing so competently. ChatGPT as an example gets updated every week. This will happen in less time than you all imagine.

I like how the concern is ChatGPT and Not the tech layoffs, hiring freezes, chip shortage, or the fact the competition is higher than ever

Im really eager to learn. I want to obtain a associates in AI engineer or cs. So far cs seems important and ai engineer seems to be very limited to ai and not things outside of it

AI is crazy RN! Such a valid question to answer! 🙌🏼

I agree with you but I have a question if I come from the business field, Is a degree necessary for becoming a data analyst? thanks anyway.

would you recommend a master's in CS or just AI?

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You need a formal education to be able to articulate yourself in a clear and concise manner. Sure, ChatGPT builds great prototypes, but without a formal background in the topic, or proper understanding of the framework of the libraries that you're working with, you'll be in for an endless loop or garbage-in and garbage-out. Besides, you'll be in a bigger disaster if you're ever asked to present the code that you have "written" by walking through the implementation process.
In the question of whether "formal education" must be strictly a computer science degree; in my opinion, the answer is no. In any undergraduate discipline, you are expected to have a grasp of critical thinking. This means that you should know what questions to ask and what facts or observations to ignore (right, the BS detector). It would definitely be beneficial if you have taken at least some CS101 courses, ie knowing how the OOP paradigm works by heart is a good place to start, if not, then this is where continuous learning, either through self-taught or taking relevant courses, comes in.
On a related note, whenever you are self-learning, you accept the risk that you might follow a suboptimal course structure in exchange for the benefit of paying lower tuition costs. I think the best way to mitigate this risk is to critically examine the course syllabuses before starting the studies (and know that you have the prerequisites). Don't start a course if you think you will get lost when you're halfway through it. KRplus channels (like this one) can be a great resource for learning about big ideas such as what latest development toolkits you should consider, and sharing strategies for learning in general.

Firstly, thank you for this video. Secondly, "I don't agree with your point. Specifically, the section about AI in my piece didn't address hacking issues because you may not have inquired about all facets of the particular problem. Building on the discussion in this video, I believe we need you to create another video focused on prompt engineering, particularly CoT and ToT. This will assist us in fully leveraging AI."

The ONLY reason that corporations require Computer Science Degrees is because they are getting kickbacks from the Federally backed University system. On top of that, algorithms are constantly searching for career potential largely based on a lineage of 'degrees' in that area. Lastly, you have the ability for students to constantly undermine existing parameters to get leverage over other students and job applicants.
In a world of AI, this will only become more apparent as the kinks in ChatGPT and other applications get sorted out. If anybody and their brother can get an AI written assignment turned in. Then a degree means nothing, aside from sorting out 'honest' people from 'con-artists'.

Can someone help me.. Master's of Computer science or Master's of Artificial intelligence which is more beneficial in 2024 😊

There’s never a scenario where 2 equals candidates and only one has a degree. The reality is that it’s over saturated with people with degrees. Way too saturated with entry level degree holders.

Get use to working in a different field for those who got cs degrees, Ai is coming for your jobs

Which university are you studying in dear?

My cs degree is useless. I'm tempted to throw it in a fire pit someday.

Go get your CS degree. A Computer science degree is not a programming degree.

even without ai cs is useless lol. study in a bootcamp or maybe study i.t

Is a Math Science Degree worthless since we have calculators, of course not. We study to innovate, create, not repeat like a parrot machine aka LLMs

Computer science degree will be absolutely irrelevant. For your information, 80 % of software development in 2022 was low code no code. It is just the beginning. University degree as a whole will still be relevant, agree on that. But not computer science as a degree.

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