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   Rich to nospam@example.net   
   Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope    
   01 Mar 25 16:31:09   
   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   D  wrote:   
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   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Very true.  They clearly are the 'expendable' ones, as the AI's will be   
   able to string library calls together just as poorly as they do so now.   
      
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