Reddit Experience · 2026 Q2

Career transitioning away from computer science

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Without going into too much detail, everyone I'm working with is using AI coding almost exclusively to the point where if Claude code goes down they can't work on their tasks. The code base was descri

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Without going into too much detail, everyone I'm working with is using AI coding almost exclusively to the point where if Claude code goes down they can't work on their tasks. The code base was described as a black box. These are people with 10-20 years in the industry. I'm tired of having proxy conversations with coworkers which are actually conversations with their AI and reviewing exclusively AI generated code. I love computer science and I love programming, but I'm quickly seeing a world approach where the things I enjoy about it and am skilled at are no longer part of the industry. I would bet that few of my coworkers have written any code in at least a month. It'd be one thing if I thought it was doing a terrible job, but I think it's already doing a good enough job that the massive extra code output is likely worth it. I'm anticipating massive layoffs incoming because I can't imagine it's going to make sense to have a bunch of people paid well over 100k to prompt AI to generate far more code than a company can practically use, when their managers could just do that (and are currently trying to form ai teams to do just that). I can't help but feeling like I, and many programmers, are 1 year, maybe 2 away from being almost completely redundant, and I want to anticipate this so I'm not caught up in a wave of people trying to change careers What sort of careers would it be relatively easy to transition to with a graduate degree in computer science without a huge pay cut, and have a decent chance of being AI resistant?
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