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Dear computer science majors, don’t panic
A whole generation was taught how to write code. With AI, future generations must learn how to edit code.
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New developers with less than a year’s experience can actually be less efficient with AI tools than without.
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Mary Shaw and Michael Hilton
For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems.
In practice, that has meant programming or writing code to tell a machine how to perform tasks, like sorting a list of numbers or finding the most effective way to deploy snowploughs during a winter storm.
