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by ncmncm 2360 days ago
Agreed, the typical CS education does not equip students to become useful programmers. I don't think AI has much to do with its failings, though. Universities like to think they are training up scientists.

It is much easier to teach an engineer to make good software than to teach a CSist to do engineering. I have seen the latter happen, but the usual results are... well, we see that every day.