Re: Apple is DOOMED!

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:17:54 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

My youngest son is about to graduate from University of Virginia with a
Computer Science degree. He's already telling me his future job will be
taken over by AI and he's screwed. I told him someone still needs to write
GUIs and customize the businesses programs. Hopefully I gave him some hope
for his future employment prospects...

Specialization. Specialization is the key to success (IMHO).
Can your kid learn?
That's the only thing he needs to be 'successful' in this day & age.
I have kids who are in the government, and they keep telling me they're
screwed, just as we've heard this lament since the horse & buggy farrier
was replaced by the local garage shop mechanic, who, himself, will be
replaced by someone else. It's an ongoing progression of skills needed.
I started off in comp sci way back in the late 60s and I decided I didn't
like programming so I switched to microbiology and then after getting that
degree I decided I didn't like that so I went into electrical engineering
and decided I didn't like that (after decades in the Silicon Valley) and then I went into something called benign retirement. I like that. :)
That was over two decades ago and I'm still learning every single day.
I'm learning that what we call AI is actually a very useful search
companion, since it will do things that your secretary does today.
My point, only, is that things change - but there will always be a need for
people to "specialize" in something, and as long as that person has the
capability to adapt (which requires intelligence), they'll do just fine.
Your son has a VERY employable degree, not because of what he knows, but
because getting that degree required intelligence and discipline.
A college degree tells an employer that this person has been "reviewed" by
at least forty different professors, some of whom are complete assholes,
and that person has been given a huge assignment by each of those
professors, each of which takes 3 months to complete (in a two-semester
system) and, at the end of that 3-month task, that student has to have
passed the testing requirements to that professor's satisfaction.
Since none of the Apple trolls have a college degree, they won't understand
that simply having a degree means a person is capable of learning 40
different rather complex subjects and that person has been tested on them.
To have a "technical" degree, such as comp sci is, is even better.
I fear not for your young son, badgolferman - and I wish him the best.
Oh, to be a freshman in the dorms again! Youth is wasted on the young. :)