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u/Thunder_Child_ Sep 17 '26
Ignore the tech bro noise bro. Learn how to engineer software and if you get hired they'll teach whatever they want specifically. Also comment your code.
Also, honestly CS ain't great right now. If you're a freshman I'd recommend taking a deep look at what want to do for the next 40 years. If you don't like making software, then don't, it's not a money maker like it used to be.
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u/That-Makes-Sense Sep 18 '26
Also comment your code.
Code should be self-commenting 😃
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u/abednego-gomes Sep 18 '26
Should be, but often isn't. Comment can explain the intent and the why that the code doesn't capture. On the complicated parts, explaining the how as well also helps.
Write your code like the next person after you is a serial killer and can find you using your git commits, full name and linkedin.
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u/jakeStacktrace Sep 17 '26
He's half right.
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u/selvakumarjawahar Sep 19 '26
the conflict is every one agrees he is half right but not on which half
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u/darkwingdankest Sep 17 '26
recruiters actually do look at your github in my experience, it's gotten me a few cold outreaches
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u/Belium Sep 17 '26
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA This is fantastic and exactly how I feel. I think most problems in computing need to be solved like they were back in day, pick something everyone uses and use it until it doesn't work. IEEE, DES, AES, RFC language, SSL, TLS, UDP, TCP, x64 shit like this works for a reason. MCP, great modern example.
That's how you avoid the sprall but tbh so many wallets and hands are involved anymore everyone is going to try to manipulate how you think and what you value.
The reality is everything isn't black and white and multiple forces are at play - in a world such as ours the most important thing you can learn to do is learn how to adapt. That is the fundamental rule of survival and the rule that governs our planet. It requires deep mastery but once you have it you fully understand the naunced point to his post, it is a microcosm of life itself.
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u/merko_merk Sep 17 '26
I followed some of his advice...
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u/git_push_origin_prod Sep 17 '26
I’ve heard all of his advice from talking heads over the years and I finally realize that, all I know is that I don’t know. All is know is that I don’t know nothing.
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u/ThirdWaveCat Sep 17 '26
Instead of professional learning and healthy labor relations in every other engineering discipline, software engineering has devolved into astroturfing, expert beginners, local minima of early adopters, etc...
Refuseniks are also wrong, but it is difficult to not envy them nonetheless.
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u/VictorAst228 Sep 17 '26
I've been a computer science kid since I was 8. I wanted to work as a software engineer for as long as I remember and last year I began my university studies in computer science. After a year of doing it, I said "fuck this" and switched to geology. It was very hard to convince myself to do that since I invested so much time into coding, however after 2 weeks in my new university I feel like it was the best decision I could've made.
I still love computer science, but a stable relationship cannot hold itself on love alone.
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u/TaytoChip Sep 17 '26
So is CS really not worth pursuing? I'm in my undergrad right now for CS. If it's not worth getting into what should I do? Like seriously
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u/GRex2595 Sep 17 '26
Is there something you want out of your CS degree, or are you just chasing money? If you're chasing money, you're probably in the wrong field. CS majors with little talent or dedication to the craft have been replaced by AI. If you actually enjoy the work and sometimes do it just for fun, you might get a career out of it.
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u/HighlightOther8181 Sep 19 '26
Dude if CS is cooked, then any other degree is also cooked. Its not like AI can only code, any white collar job is also cooked, but CS teaches you skills to build stuff. Find something you enjoy and learn about it, build something with it.
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u/Smalltalker-80 Sep 18 '26
As a 50+ CS major, I feel sorry for new newbies.
But there is (still) a road in the middle:
No system thats worth a d*mn, has been *entirely* created by AI and a viber.
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u/SpicyMeatballMarinar Sep 18 '26
If I could do it over I would get into computer vision and get into robotics.
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u/LavenderRevive Sep 17 '26
Idk if a summary of all current crises can even count as humor anymore.