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Comment on Ask HN: Is there a point in me getting a CS degree anymore?

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Don't believe the goofballs. AI isn't close to replacing software engineers. And if it is, then it's just going to build the robots that replace agriculture jobs too, so nothing's really safe.

If you don't like studying CS, then switch to something else. But if it does feel rewarding, then get your grades back up. Better to graduate and be good at something, even if you wind up doing something else with your life.

"then it's just going to build the robots that replace agriculture jobs too, so nothing's really safe."

Ironically, there has always been more robots doing agriculture jobs than software jobs. But people do agriculture to escape the bots.

Software bots have often just created more software jobs. Agriculture robots have often just taken more farmhand jobs. Agriculture today is far, far more profitable than it used to be because of the bots. But people don't think the software bots are going to make software jobs profitable, even though all the automation thus far have pushed engineering salaries and demand up.

vik0OP

There are no robots in agriculture, there are machines. Sorry for being pedantic.

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