The problem is that MIT used to be the high road for engineering and now it is a prestige degree and grants access to various roles etc. They gave in to the bur

The problem is that MIT used to be the high road for engineering and now it is a prestige degree and grants access to various roles etc. They gave in to the bureaucrats because it was inevitable that things would go that way anyway. At least they put the bullet in SICP and had a hand in the new curriculum. Now there is a generation of software engineers worried about losing their jobs to ChatGPT because they resigned to the fact that ChatGPT can probably glue things together better than they can long before they do the necessary work to understand ChatGPT from first principles. But this is branded as elitism, highly anti-bureaucratic.