Comment by ModernMech

I'm a CS professor. We are starting to stand up AI programs and degrees as early as next year. It could be that the AI programs completely subsume a lot of what CS does, or maybe they coexist and CS becomes actually more about actual computer science and engineering practice rather than the job training program it was for big tech for the last couple decades. Enrollment is dipping but it's still very high. That may be more of a function of the current political environment than anything else.

For my classes I've moved to a multimodal testing regime - oral, practical, take-home, in-class, tests to get a varied picture. Everything they submit is version controlled, and the solution is worth nothing without a sufficient version control history.

They're allowed to use AI in their homework and take-home exams (I don't get paid enough manage a surveillance state to make sure they never use it), but they have to explain it, and extend it without AI in person. Those who use AI completely fail at this point, those who worked on their own pass easily. By the second time they have to perform these in-class practical exams they do much better.

As for the curriculum, we are accredited so we cannot change the curriculum much without losing that accreditation. I think that's a lot of the reason for standing up a new program, but the current curriculum will likely have to be adjusted. I see classes like Programming Languages changing significantly in the future.