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AI won't kill your computer science degree, professors say


Harvard computer science professor David Malan told BI that far from displacing software engineers, AI would amplify their productivity instead.

"As an industry, it's going to shrink, and only people who really understand what they're doing are going to survive," Aditya Swami, who heads product development efforts at Singaporean venture capital firm Hatcher+, told Business Insider in July. David Malan, a computer science professor at Harvard, told BI that AI won't displace software engineers in the near term and would instead amplify their productivity. "Although AI enhances efficiency and allows people to do more with less, writing code is just a part of a software engineer's role," said Adrian Goh, cofounder of NodeFlair, a job board for tech professionals in Asia.

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