Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Computer Science Dream Has Become a Nightmare

TechCrunch: Well, the coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% ...

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Carnegie Mellon announces layoffs in computer science school triblive.com/news/educati ...

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-- Ben Schmitt (@bencschmitt.bsky.social) Aug 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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"The alleged culprits?

AI programming eliminating junior positions, while Amazon, Meta and Microsoft slash jobs.

Students say they're trapped in an "AI doom loop" " using AI to mass-apply while companies use AI to auto-reject them, sometimes within minutes."

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Trump Solution? Fire the Federal Reserved Bank of New York study group!

www.newyorkfed.org

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-10 04:23 PM

Should have done Liberal Arts.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-10 09:38 PM

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