Comment by aleph_minus_one
20 days ago
> I am currently a CS student in germany and our python lecturer told us at the first lesson that "we didn't really need to learn python" because AI was going to take over anyways and we will not be writing any code after we graduate. He then encouraged us to use AI on all assignments he gives us. He even allows us to cheat at the final exam by using LLMs.
> I was about to have a word with him after the lecture but when he started talking about how crypto is going to replace fiat any second now I knew he was a lost cause.
Knowing the education system in Germany rather well, I ask myself in which (kind of) educational establishment this happened, since I'd consider this to be rather unusual for at least universities (Universitäten) and Fachhochschulen (some other system of tertiary education that has no analogue in most countries).
It's a Fachhochschule. And yeah that lecture was very unusual it felt like the insane rablings of a techno evangelist who jumped on every hype train in the last 20 years. He said the most important technologies are IoT, Blockchain and AI
This sounds like the Fachhochschule hired some guest lecturer from the world of employment (since it is a goal of Fachhochschulen to also give the students a perspective from work environment in their lectures, this sometimes happens).
Unluckily the people responsible to hire a guest lecturer fell for a windbag. :-(