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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:31:09 -0000 (UTC)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Rich wrote:
> 
>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> We also have a bunch of IT programs which are really business school
>>>> programs with some computing added.  I think those are pretty much
>>>> worthless, but they get a lot of students.
>>>
>>> I think maybe those programs try to sell that you can get a nice
>>> FAANG job with 300k starting salary with very little effort.  ;)
>>
>> Those are also the same "puppy farms" that curn out developers who only
>> know how to string together calling already written libraries to do
>> various tasks.
>>
>> But ask them to do something for which they can't find an already
>> created library, and they are hopelessly lost.
> 
> Makes sense. Those type of programmers I think are the ones who will 
> suffer the most when AI:s becoming better at generating simple code 
> snippets.

Very true.  They clearly are the 'expendable' ones, as the AI's will be 
able to string library calls together just as poorly as they do so now.