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svachalek 2 hours ago [-]
`Geoffrey Challen, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to offer a new course this fall in which he will teach students to develop software “without writing, reading, debugging, or viewing a single line of code,” he told me.`
This is "studying computer science" now? Vibe coding is easy and fun, but why spend 4 years and a small fortune to study it when practically anyone can pick it up over a weekend?
hyperhello 46 minutes ago [-]
Computer Science without code is as worthless as literary study without reading. That curriculum is going to be torture.
bwhiting2356 19 minutes ago [-]
Teaching systems is useful. The worst vibe coding I've seen has been bad system design choices. But I agree that we should also still look at the code.
mikeweiss 1 hours ago [-]
You never really had to get a formal education in programming to be successful before AI either....
laughing_man 35 minutes ago [-]
Companies are laying off experienced developers 10,000 at a time with no end in sight. It's pretty irresponsible to be telling people it's a good time to get a Computer Science degree.
This is "studying computer science" now? Vibe coding is easy and fun, but why spend 4 years and a small fortune to study it when practically anyone can pick it up over a weekend?