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You think a Masters in Computer Science will be useless in 3 years?

100%. Once the cost of the context window lessens as it naturally will, as well as the window itself increases then you will have the entire code base in the AI memory. Then literally anyone, a PM, CEO, lunch lady etc. Could add whatever feature requested in plain english in seconds.

Only value left would be in cutting edge research but that is a very hard area to get into frankly. Maybe IoT could be something.

I guess we'll see how it plays out. I'm much less convinced that any person off the street will be able to write and validate most software tasks in 3 years, LLM or not.

I'll wait until redundancy (if that even happens) to figure it out. Make hay while the sun's shining and all that. Besides, Software Developers are educated and make up a small enough percent of the economy that I don't see an issue with the market absorbing the redundancies.

For what its worth, I hope you are right.

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