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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich <rich@example.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:31:09 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <vpvcod$a2fl$1@dont-email.me> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87ikp03y4r.fsf@example.com> <vplm9g$bh8$1@panix2.panix.com> <81cafbfb-18b8-8898-4d91-13ba43f9703c@example.net> <vpo1cg$qcm$1@panix2.panix.com> <dfc6bc27-b444-72b8-0e74-ee9fc6551cd6@example.net> <vpq63t$36lja$2@dont-email.me> <28a3e89f-141f-5300-98c9-77f10424a879@example.net> Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:31:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d6efe7c6d7684bf190859629a443a499"; logging-data="330229"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18bAFp5boJGFkF/QGy3Q7PX" User-Agent: tin/2.6.1-20211226 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.139 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SPHSXemeobYfrhV+NMHL2jL68xs= Bytes: 2264 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.