Why I'm majoring in CS

Coding is dead. I'm sorry. I loved writing code as much as the next guy, but it's genuinely gone. An AI agent is going to be MUCH more efficient than humans at writing code. And a big part of what CS teaches you is coding. But, what it also teaches you is problem solving.

Problem solving is NOT, and can NOT ever be dead. If humans aren't solving problems anymore, then all of human labor is already automated, at which point, nothing matters anymore. A CS Degree teaches this problem solving - whether it be proofs in discrete math, DSA, operating systems, etc. All of this lays the foundations at which technical problem solving can happen.

But, to be honest, any CS-adjacent degree like Math, Statistics, Physics, CE, or even EE achieves this. But CS is, in my opinion, the easiest, leaving time for extracirriculars and work.

So, until all human labor is automated fully, the bottleneck WILL be software. How? If you have perfect software, you can use software to build hardware - right, AI can learn to CAD, design circuits, etc, and recursively make itself PHYSICALLY if we can figure out a way to program it properly. In a way, this relies on the fact that AI is the final frontier - the invention to end all inventions.

But until ASI is built, we're going to have a period where AGI exists, but we're unable to build ASI because of scaling, energy, infra, algorithms, etc. All of these problems are CS-adjacent. The world's most technical people are going to be the onces solving them at AI Labs, all while the AI B2B SaaS bubble eventually dies.

In fact, there's an argument to be made that we already have AGI, and ASI is incoming in the future, as soon as we can scale. At that point, CS is the final frontier before the complete restructuring of society.

So, yeah, major in CS if you're willing to be in tha top 0.01% of technical builders who are going to pave the way for ASI. It'll be the last work mankind faces. Plus, it's really fun. That's just my take as someone at the beginning of the tunnel.