education

who is helping and advising these kids? why was there no one to take him aside after application, oh, idk 2500 and say hey maybe try a different way? why is he only NOW building personal projects after application 5k???

listen I know it’s bad out there and gonna get worse but also like………. where is the common sense, or barring that, the mentorship? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html

The more headlines I read like this, the more I feel justified in my “contrarian” decision to drop out in 2021 and double down on my side-project / hackathon experience as a signal for employability.

University-level computer science programs in particular have become so woefully outdated, under-resourced and downright extortive compared to what you can find for free online. I think the very premise of higher education needs to be entirely rethought.

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Couldn't agree more, but I would also add: the simultaneousness of the AI age and the Big Tech enshittification process together means that the "self-taught solo tech entrepreneur" path is now both more feasible and more appealing than the career path described in the quote cast.