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Another week, another select *! Let’s dive in. Articles CS students ruined by AI?A Reddit thread on whether CS grads still need to code to provide business value. I stumbled across this Reddit thread and think it’s an interesting insight into what the future might hold for CS students. Will CS grads still really need to code to provide business value? Will high-level languages go like the way of assembly? And will software engineering transition into an all-day long guessing game to figure out if your brilliant intern is deceiving you? Will a new upperclass arise that manages the models while the rest of us drink from their fountains, or did that already happen? Anyways, it feels that Reddit’s opinion is that this is a big mistake and students are making themselves unemployable. Perhaps. Or perhaps it will go the way of the sage wisdom of the 70s of “You can’t bring a calculator everywhere you go you know.” We actually could and we actually did and we actually will keep bringing our calculators everywhere we go and look at them non-stop for up to 10 hours a day, thank you very much. ...