No: most people should choose another path
Choose a field or trade where entry-level work is less exposed to automation, or learn programming alongside a different degree or job instead.
Reasons
- 1.
AI tools now do much of the routine coding that used to be given to beginners, so there are fewer entry-level jobs to learn on.
Supports
Employment of young workers in AI-exposed occupations such as software development has fallen behind comparable jobs, while experienced workers are not affected the same way.
- Stanford published facts (digitaleconomy.stanford.edu)
Yes, fundementals will outlast tools · Overstated
The same researchers find the AI-linked decline only becomes clear in 2024; the earlier drop also reflects the end of the post-pandemic hiring boom.
- Stanford (digitaleconomy.stanford.edu)
Yes, fundementals will outlast tools · Not true
Someone still has to judge whether AI-written code is correct, secure and fast, and that takes the understanding a degree teaches.
- 2.
Many trades and care professions face shortages and are harder to automate than office work done at a screen.
source requested · 1 - 3.
Programming can be learned alongside another degree or job, so a full computer science degree is no longer needed to use it.
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