Comment by jpen365

My son goes to an extremely well respected public school CS program. He's in his second year. I am an Exec at a mid-market tech company. Naturally I'm curious how his uni is handling AI. I've been surprised that (a) they aren't teaching it, which seems like a travesty given AI fluency is an expected skill and (b) they are using paper tests (i.e. literally hand writing code) to ensure students aren't just using AI to generate code on tests. A wild situation and not particularly helpful IMO: not teaching them to use modern tools and requiring mastery of a skillset no one has needed to master for over a decade (IDE's have had great autocomplete for a long time now - no one needs to be able to hand write code with perfect syntax).

As far as the job market, he is still seeing folks get great internships and he's seeking them out himself right now. However, he's very realistic that he'll likely never work as a developer. He expects to work IN technology, but not writing code, so he's prioritizing developing his personal network and soft skills in addition to his academics. His thinking about his career and that of his peers: adaptability will be key.