Engineer whose ANSYS skills got automated asks if college degrees still matter
dishoombang · reddit · 2026-09-10
A mechanical engineering grad on Reddit questions whether college degrees retain value given AGI's arrival and possible ASI this decade.
His realization: ANSYS, the simulation software he spent years learning in his degree, can now be automated to produce simulation results quickly even by someone with little engineering knowledge. He asks what humans should learn and do if AGI can automate even specialized work.
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