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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple is DOOMED!
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:32:35 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:17:54 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :


> My youngest son is about to graduate from University of Virginia with a
> Computer Science degree. He's already telling me his future job will be
> taken over by AI and he's screwed. I told him someone still needs to write
> GUIs and customize the businesses programs. Hopefully I gave him some hope
> for his future employment prospects... 

Specialization. 

Specialization is the key to success (IMHO).
Can your kid learn?

That's the only thing he needs to be 'successful' in this day & age.

I have kids who are in the government, and they keep telling me they're
screwed, just as we've heard this lament since the horse & buggy farrier
was replaced by the local garage shop mechanic, who, himself, will be
replaced by someone else. It's an ongoing progression of skills needed.

I started off in comp sci way back in the late 60s and I decided I didn't
like programming so I switched to microbiology and then after getting that
degree I decided I didn't like that so I went into electrical engineering
and decided I didn't like that (after decades in the Silicon Valley) 
and then I went into something called benign retirement. I like that. :)

That was over two decades ago and I'm still learning every single day.

I'm learning that what we call AI is actually a very useful search
companion, since it will do things that your secretary does today.

My point, only, is that things change - but there will always be a need for
people to "specialize" in something, and as long as that person has the
capability to adapt (which requires intelligence), they'll do just fine.

Your son has a VERY employable degree, not because of what he knows, but
because getting that degree required intelligence and discipline.

A college degree tells an employer that this person has been "reviewed" by
at least forty different professors, some of whom are complete assholes,
and that person has been given a huge assignment by each of those
professors, each of which takes 3 months to complete (in a two-semester
system) and, at the end of that 3-month task, that student has to have
passed the testing requirements to that professor's satisfaction.

Since none of the Apple trolls have a college degree, they won't understand
that simply having a degree means a person is capable of learning 40
different rather complex subjects and that person has been tested on them.

To have a "technical" degree, such as comp sci is, is even better.
I fear not for your young son, badgolferman - and I wish him the best.

Oh, to be a freshman in the dorms again! Youth is wasted on the young. :)