"Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after declining 3% in 2024, according to reporting this past week by the San Francisco Chronicle. Even as overall college enrollment climbed 2% nationally — according to January data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — students are bailing on traditional CS degrees."
...Just reminds me of the early 1990s after the great rush of coders/programmers in the late 1980s. Things go in cycles up and down.
The cost benefit analysis probably doesn't work for most people anymore. You can't be mediocre at CS anymore and get a good paying job simply because the world needs more mediocre programmers.
It's funny that they're touting MIT's AI & Decision Making major as an example of exodus when it's a fairly normal CS curriculum with a faint bias toward more system-designy things.