What does education look like 2027 and onwards? My son is graduating soon and will major in Computer Science, with a secondary Art degree.
I have no idea how it will feel to be forced to write code and learn data structures, and SQL, and infrastructure, when it's all right there in 15 seconds with the AI agent.
Does anyone have any experience with this in 2026 specifically? How are the kids doing?
At least with a medical degree you HAVE to study, and memorize. It's part of the job.
As someone without CS background working in a modest app, I think a lot of it will come down to architecture, supervision and direction rather than grunt code writing.
You need to know about database normalization, about algorithms and techniques, ideate solution to problems etc because as impressive as those 1-shot youtube videos on model release look, once you go beyond that, that's where the value ad comes in my experience.
sergiotapia · · focus · HN ↗
I have no idea how it will feel to be forced to write code and learn data structures, and SQL, and infrastructure, when it's all right there in 15 seconds with the AI agent.
Does anyone have any experience with this in 2026 specifically? How are the kids doing?
At least with a medical degree you HAVE to study, and memorize. It's part of the job.
NolF · · focus · HN ↗
You need to know about database normalization, about algorithms and techniques, ideate solution to problems etc because as impressive as those 1-shot youtube videos on model release look, once you go beyond that, that's where the value ad comes in my experience.
sergiotapia · · focus · HN ↗
I'm talking about learning/training for the job!