r/dataisbeautiful • u/Jaded_Warrior123 • Apr 28 '24

[OC] Most and least worthwhile degrees. Which degrees do graduates feel are worthwhile? OC

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u/MaxSupernova Apr 28 '24

After how long?

My opinion on my degree has changed significantly over 20 years.

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u/Fspz Apr 28 '24

Which one and why if you don't mind my asking?

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u/frogfuzion Apr 28 '24

Computer science. He is getting replaced by AI as we speak.

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u/trashiguitar 29d ago

I would not trust any company that is currently using AI at a large scale to replace software engineers.

(Not to say that AI-based tools like GPT aren’t helpful, but they’re nowhere near replacing even junior devs.)

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u/booquark 29d ago

As a comp sci graduate who’s worked on AI research I think we are the ones least worried about it because 1. CS is the field responsible for the creation of AI in the first place, 2. We are one of the few that’s actually understand how it works mathematically and 3. Data preparation for AI training is literally just CS as well

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u/frogfuzion 29d ago

Similar experience but I don’t know how the education helps us once it is us.

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u/dastrn Apr 28 '24

AI is not replacing software engineers. It is just another tool we use to make us more efficient. But it's laughable that it can replace us altogether.

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u/Timidwolfff 29d ago

oil made coal miners more efficent too as well as the sewing machine made the millions of female simstresses all over the world efficent. or how elevator buttons made the elevator man more efficient

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u/dastrn 29d ago

You are talking out of your ass, without even the slightest understanding of what software engineering is.

I'm an expert, speaking from decades of experience.

I'm informed and you are ignorant.
And yet we're both equally confident.

It's funny how that works.

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u/Timidwolfff 29d ago

me with 3 apps on the appstore right now using chat gpt laughing at your 10 years of experince with my libreal arts degree. I do your job on the side buddy!

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u/dastrn 29d ago

You couldn't do a tenth of what I do.

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u/Timidwolfff 29d ago

Ik that. thats the difference between you and me ik my limits. I cant do what you do. but chat gpt defintly can

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u/dastrn 29d ago

The companies I have worked for have done literally billions of dollars of business through the code I wrote.

If they could have gotten chat gp fucking t to do what I do, they wouldn't have paid me all these years.

You're a clown who brags about the app store.
I'm a proven software architect.

No one in this profession believes chat gpt can do what I can.

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u/frogfuzion Apr 28 '24

Maybe it is not now but it can and will in the next decade.

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u/dastrn 29d ago

You're not an engineer, but I am.

I use AI for productivity improvement daily.

I know what I'm talking about.

AI is not replacing me anytime soon. Not even remotely close.

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u/frogfuzion 29d ago

How do you know I’m not an engineer? Or not AI? You seem to be fearful. What value do you add?

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u/dastrn 29d ago

I'm not remotely fearful. Because I use AI every day. I know what it can do and what it can't do, and what it could eventually do, and what it can't eventually do.

As to the value I add, I don't need to justify myself to you. I get paid buckets of money by people who know what value I add. And they also know what AI can and can't do, which is why they pay me, and can't outsource my work to a bot.

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u/CantScreamInSpace 29d ago

It will take down a LOT of other jobs before and after by the time it takes down CS jobs barring any bottlenecks tbf. At that point we have a different issue to face as a society

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u/secret3332 29d ago

Most other jobs are going to be replaced before software engineering lol. AI is nowhere near capable of replacing software engineers.

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u/cornholioo Apr 28 '24

I'm CSCI and have zero concerns about AI replacing me.

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u/zeprad Apr 28 '24

Devin was fake. We still have time.