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The same thing happened to mechanical engineering decades ago when CAD came onto the scene. I have a family friend of my parents' generation who remembers feeli
by Karrot_Kream 2mo ago
The same thing happened to mechanical engineering decades ago when CAD came onto the scene. I have a family friend of my parents' generation who remembers feeling like his "superpower" in solving fluidics differential equations completely went out of the window once solvers could handle everything he was good at. He survived and had a good career guiding engineers into using CAD correctly.
The way the industry "solved" it was basically raising degree requirements across the board. I went to a top 5 engineering school and one of my undergrad roommates was a mechanical engineer. I remember having a pretty eye-opening conversation with him about how their undergrad program just teaches them what is already commoditized in CAD application packages and is considered table stakes. Industry hires had MS minimums, and plenty of MechEs ended up getting PhDs so they could work on more cutting edge stuff.
My guess is software will end up similarly. The bottom end of this stuff will become purely commoditized and cutting edge stuff will require more education.
- ehnto 2mo agoI don't think I've seen any university teach anything but software table stakes. If even that. Fresh grads sometimes come to us having never actually written a program of their own volition.