People will still get jobs, though they may not be as lucrative, says Matt Welsh, a former Harvard computer-science professor and entrepreneur. In 10 years, or maybe five, coding bots may be able to do so much more. In one study, software developers with access to GitHub’s Copilot chatbot were able to finish a coding task 56 percent faster than those who did it solo. Coders are now using AI as a sort of souped-up Clippy to accelerate the more routine parts of their job, such as debugging lines of code. So much for learning to code.ĬhatGPT cannot yet write a better essay than a human author can, nor can it code better than a garden-variety developer, but something has changed even in the 10 months since its introduction. In the ultimate irony, software engineers helped create AI, and now they are the American workers who think it will have the biggest impact on their livelihoods, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. You can’t just type make me a video game into ChatGPT and get something that’s playable on the other end, but many programmers have now developed rudimentary smartphone apps coded by AI. ChatGPT and other chatbots can do more than compose full essays in an instant they can also write lines of code in any number of programming languages. Meanwhile, humanities enrollments across the United States have withered at a clip-in some cases, shrinking entire departments to nonexistence.īut that was before the age of generative AI. Since 2016, enrollment in undergraduate computer-science programs has increased nearly 49 percent. Perhaps nothing has defined higher education over the past two decades more than the rise of computer science and STEM. The average starting salary for someone with a computer-science degree is significantly higher than that of a mid-career English graduate, according to the Federal Reserve at Google, an entry-level software engineer reportedly makes $184,000, and that doesn’t include the free meals, massages, and other perks. Coding jobs are plentiful across industries, and the pay is good-even after the tech layoffs of the past year. eventually spat me out into the thick of the Great Recession, I worried that they’d been right.Īfter all, computer-science degrees, and certainly not English, have long been sold to college students as among the safest paths toward 21st-century job security. The ability to recite Chaucer in the original Middle English was unlikely to land me a job that would pay off my student loans and help me save for retirement, they suggested when I was a college freshman still figuring out my future. The quickest way to second-guess a decision to major in English is this: have an extended family full of Salvadoran immigrants and pragmatic midwesterners. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.
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