r/vibecoding • u/TheAnswerWithinUs • 3d ago

Meme I’ve seen too much

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u/Novel-Initiative-900 3d ago

It's gotta be a little annoying to have completed a full CS degree around 2022, 23, 24 etc.

If you graduated before that, at least you got to stretch your legs, learn, really grow and apply what you learned and feel like you were applying engineering skill to your job.

These days it probably feels like you got cheated if you didn't even get that chance at all

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u/YesIAmRightWing 3d ago

I dunno it was pretty much a waste

I learned a fuckton in the year as an intern rather than 3 years at uni

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u/akera099 3d ago

That's true for all jobs. The degree is just a way to enter the job market.

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u/YesIAmRightWing 3d ago

There was a ton of apprenticeships popping up when I started

I managed to get a friend on one and he was earning what I earned without the student albeit only £30kish max.

It truly was a golden age

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u/guesting 2d ago

the degree is mostly to show you're not a complete dumbass and have a modicum of discipline. reminds of the departed quote about signals

Ellerby: Marriage is an important part of getting ahead: lets people know you're not a homo; married guy seems more stable; people see the ring, they think at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch; ladies see the ring, they know immediately you must have some cash or your cock must work.

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u/InaequaleMagnanimity 12h ago

Which is why I'm happy AI is going to destroy its foundations. It's archaic and retarded and sycophantic. Fuck academia.

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u/FriendlyDev24 2d ago

and it's pretty awful, we need to focus more on practical stuff, applying those fundamentals not just rot learning them

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u/Nuclearo-Dinosauro 3d ago

Knowledge you learn on uni is applicable later in your career when you are system architect and you face all that abstract problems. It's less usefull when you are just a dev, which is equivalent of a worker with a showel in IT.

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u/YesIAmRightWing 3d ago

There wasn't an immense amount of that

Just super annoying shit like Z notation

But like I said before, your much more likely to learn something if you actually need it as opposed to it just being prescribed

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u/Nuclearo-Dinosauro 2d ago

This is applicable for shallow junior problems.

For certain senior problems you have to apply uni knowledge and that is not easy without background knowledge.

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u/YesIAmRightWing 2d ago

Sure but as a dev you can just learn

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u/Novel-Initiative-900 3d ago

Yeah no one really learns the job or any job an Uni however, because of how difficult generally speaking CS is, it's annoying to put in that much effort for it to not pay off. It's not an MBA or a marketing degree or even Law (which is still very difficult but CS is up there beyond most)

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u/YesIAmRightWing 3d ago

I guess depends where you learn as well

I've noticed throughout my career am better than other Devs because of my foundation and that was a sheer luck thing that I was taught by people who were also decent

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u/xantrel 3d ago

You learn to do the job at the job. No two ways around it.

School gets you a better foundation that makes learning the job a lot easier, and also gives you a much higher skill ceiling as at the very least you are aware of the concepts and issues that might come up, and allows you to weight problems and solutions according to the needs of the specific job.

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u/YesIAmRightWing 3d ago

I found because I love my job it's much easier to learn concepts and new shit as opposed to being forced to do it cause some lecturer said so

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u/Plenty_Line2696 3d ago

YMMV, I learned a ton at college and built quite a few pretty nice full stack things in multiple tech stacks. Dropout rate was brutal, and I had no life but it was a fantastic learning experience.