Or a head mustache.

Needless to say, CS programs cratering (how could they not with the narrative we are being told?), will just accelerate the problem.

But it’s hard for me not to draw a line back to the drop in talent quality making it seem like a poor investment.

At the same time, companies started devaluing their talent pipeline and growing top heavy, only hiring for experience—folks who already knew how to solve problems. Of course economic factors were at play, too…

It started with the boot camp boom, “anybody can be a coder for hire.” Many graduates could cut it, but many could not, and lacked basic problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the domain they’d been taught. Many struggle to move up and go beyond implementing tickets other ppl write.

Same. Speaking not as a CS major but as someone who has risen to a high level as a tech IC and been in industry for 20 years, the lower end of the hiring pool has been cratering for years. We are not cultivating the next generation of technical leadership who can dig into and solve hard problems.

I’ve seen my fair share of manually created (or manually broken) files, but the truly impressive thing is that people are still doing this in 2025.

What if an LLM did it? 😂

My youngest child very appropriately requested a hot cocoa with breakfast this morning.

Hot toddy.

Or hot cocoa.

Plausible deniability :)

IYKYK

Thank you for this. I've been saying to people I know that the average American has absolutely no idea how much higher education contributes to the quality of their life in the country whether they work in it or not...economically intellectually medically scientifically humanistically...

Yep, see this all the time. For whatever reason it is not always so bad but definitely not new.