124,000 Tech Layoffs This Year: The 'Learn to Code' Era Ends, CS Thinking Endures
_akpiper · x · 2026-09-08
An Inside Higher Ed op-ed by Shlomo Argamon and Lisa Gandy notes Meta, Coinbase and Block each cut 10%+ of staff (13,000 jobs combined), citing AI partly; 200+ tech companies have cut 124,000 jobs this year. Students are fleeing CS, but the authors argue the real error was the 'learn to code = guaranteed job' story: as AI reduces the importance of writing code, the deeper habits of mind fostered by computer science become more vital.
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