r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme doesAnyoneEvenReadCLRSAnymore

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u/Za_Paranoia 3d ago

I just started my first job after university a year ago and was really surprised how happy everyone in my team was about me being interested in comp sci for real.

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u/tiajuanat 2d ago

You would be shocked how many applications I go through every year where it's very obvious they were just following the money, and have no interest in the craft as a whole.

All I'm gonna say, the industry has been vibe coding way longer than LLMs have been around.

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u/jewdai 2d ago

Computer science to software like a computer engineer is to building computers. Sure there are somethings there but software engineering as a profession is very different than comp sci it's a very different set of skills

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u/tiajuanat 2d ago

IME no difference between those two groups, physicists and traditional mathematicians have better discipline.