Many universities used to have basic skills without the rigorous academic culture of top universities. They're being completely decimated by AI: professors downskilling themselves by openly using it in the course, often even responding to questions with suggestion to prompt it yourself. Some will prognosticate themselves about how everything outside the tiniest subset of their subject will be replaced soon enough. Students themselves seem to either understand AI as academically dishonest or believed the propaganda, thinking they HAVE to "learn" it to have a chance at a career, even at the expense of actual subjects. If you remotely suspect that, don't rely on prior evidence, run.

Meanwhile other unis are still majority high class faculty members holding the bar, but are suffering a decline in the quality of new students. You can absolutely learn in those places, but you're likely to to find many capable peers.

I don't have the data what's going on at global top CS programs, presumably much better than this. I do predict we're gonna suffer a multi-generational loss of skilled talent, with three generations of mediocre programmers converted to AI zombies incapable of performing their job, with or without it.

When one side of the discussion makes their ignorance a point of pride, defining themselves entirely based on what they now need not know, I believe you've inadvertently insulted yourself.

And yet it's on the front-page... HN is rabidly descending into actual SEO spam, on par with bought-out game journalism outlets firing everyone to put up a thousand casino ads from non-existent people with fake degrees. Is it the AI bros so desperate for validation of their new methodology they'd take it from a second-rate source?

In my home country, there exists a law banning the use of encryption without a special government license issued to businesses. Did Chromium instantly add a popup asking if you possessed said license when you first connected to any SSL site? No...

Americans need to realize stupid laws are not to be reasoned with. They are a hammer the powers give themselves to exercise as they please, and you are usually not the target despite being technically in their violation.

You better use that energy to fight these stupid laws with whatever remains of your democratic levers, before those are gone too.

Is it because do I feel about 'i think my comment' that you came to me?