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   D to Rich   
   Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope    
   01 Mar 25 11:47:17   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Rich wrote:   
      
   > D  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>> We also have a bunch of IT programs which are really business school   
   >>> programs with some computing added.  I think those are pretty much   
   >>> worthless, but they get a lot of students.   
   >>   
   >> I think maybe those programs try to sell that you can get a nice   
   >> FAANG job with 300k starting salary with very little effort.  ;)   
   >   
   > Those are also the same "puppy farms" that curn out developers who only   
   > know how to string together calling already written libraries to do   
   > various tasks.   
   >   
   > But ask them to do something for which they can't find an already   
   > created library, and they are hopelessly lost.   
      
   Makes sense. Those type of programmers I think are the ones who will   
   suffer the most when AI:s becoming better at generating simple code   
   snippets.   
      
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