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My Parent doesn't want me doing CS, or CE, because they feel the job market will disappear come 7 years. (lemmy.world)
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Basically Title.
I love CS, I love designing systems, programming, some cyber and math.
The problem is, I am due to admit into CS this year (4 year program). My Parent's will be funding a majority of it (~2 years, + RESP). And one of my parents, thinks CS won't have many jobs come 7 years?
Why? Because AI will take them all (or is more likely to take them all). That AI is expanding at a rapid pace, and they will slowly but surely take the hardware designing jobs, the programming jobs, and pretty much all the jobs except the administration ones. I have a poor time putting into words what I would like to do in the future (cause I love lots of things related to CS) but I say thing a bit on the technical side, and this parent says that if I cant explain it to them than I don't understand it and that they understand (more to me) what will happen to the market due to their age

I am not saying they're wrong to any of this by the way, I'm just looking for advice on if they're right, and if not, why?

I don't think I'll ever give up doing CS because its something I love with all my heart.
But if I'm not able to convince them, they want me to take a gap and get a different degree (in a less likely to be taken job).
I might be rambling here, but I am genuinely soooo lost.

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago

Nobody has the answer I’m afraid, we’ll have to see. Currently at least you need a human professional to review what the LLMs do, no way of telling if that will change. Although, I don’t think it’s likely that code generation tools will become fully self sustainable.

My best guess is that there’ll always be a place for qualified, deeply curious people in the field.. If not, a lot more than programming is gonna become automated, and well… Society is gonna have bigger problems.

I’d recommend prioritising rational thinking & problem solving (those are severe limitations of LLMs today) and if all else fails, possibly a hobby that you might somehow fall back on for employment in a post knowledge-work economy.

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