Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
4•amichail•1h ago
Given that modern AI can automate routine programming, maybe CS professors weren't just being snobbish in the way they looked down on programming in their lectures even though most of their students were going to become programmers.
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manfromchina1•1h ago
Depends on what kind of profs.Those who teach low level systems stuff absolutely need you to be able to program in C or something similar. On the theoretical side you can kinda sorta get away with very strong math skills. You open CLRS - it just gives you a pseudocode, you do efficiency/correctness analysis on it and forward you go. Then open an Automata book and realize it's all math all the way down. Not a lot of math either.
Kernel programming still resists AI so C and assembly arent going anywhere.
manfromchina1•1h ago
Kernel programming still resists AI so C and assembly arent going anywhere.