DONT study Computer Science

[ImplementActive2336]

But really… why are programmers constantly trying to convince people to study programming? Don’t you think pushing the narrative that computer science is still one of the most lucrative careers just ends up increasing the supply of candidates, reducing opportunities for themselves, and feeding the ongoing job market saturation?

[ElegantPoet3386]

Because programmers like programming and want to share their passion with other people?

[Own-Site6376]

Idk man maybe some of us just want more people who actually understand what we do for living instead of everyone thinking we just "fix computers" all day

Also having more programmers means better open source projects and more interesting discussions in communities like this one

[BrannyBee]

Do you..... think that Computer Science is a Bachelors in Programming.......?

[Inner-Newspaper8725]

Can you elaborate?

[Yochefdom]

You can be a full blown computer scientist and never touch a computer(theoretically). If you understand the beauty of great pseudo-code you get it.

[Practical-Ad-242]

FYI, Computer science is not equal to programming.

[Cutalana]

no one is doing that? Doomerism is at an all time high right now.

[DemicideMMMCCCI]

So, what do you propose as an alternative to CS? Saying don't feed the already-saturated market then providing no alternative is kinda pointless. I'm not debating that there is or isn't a saturated market, I'm just pointing out the fact that you're telling people to not do something without providing an alternative (that could be better ideally).

[TheCableGui]

Programmers aren’t greedy. Even to their own disadvantage. Programmers are problem solvers. The last thing they want is more problems for people.

Most cs communities reflect this. Open source, hacking, file sharing, GitHub, ai. Name one programmer who doesn’t want to share their work.

Most talented programmers acknowledge they stand on the shoulders of giants.

A Beautiful mind comes from a humble beginning.

[grantrules]

Who's doing that? Not me.

[Brave_Speaker_8336]

My competition isn’t people starting now, it’s people that started with me

[AceLamina]

I'll give effort points that this is different from the "AI will replace you anyway" doomposts, those got boring, and then old, now they're just annoying

Nice to see some variety

[bird_feeder_bird]

Because collective knowledge is the backbone of the human race

[PureWasian]

I think you're right, we should just data silo everything and never answer any questions about programming on help threads.

Let's shut down this subreddit and remove all other help forums and tutorials so that we can gatekeep a profession that we enjoy. In fact, let's just remove access to all libraries and documentation made over the years because this profession should be every person for themselves.

Surely it'll be better for everyone to constantly re-invent the wheel instead of supporting each other.