CS grads face 7% unemployment, worse than philosophy — the cobweb cycle strikes again
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-06
Aakash Gupta explains CS degree whiplash via the cobweb cycle (learned from 1920s hog farmers): the last time CS was called a dead degree was 2003 — new CS majors had collapsed 50% post dot-com, so those grads hit the iPhone/AWS boom as the most in-demand workers, with salaries going vertical for a decade. Meanwhile students who enrolled in 2020, when CS was the golden ticket, are graduating into 7% unemployment — higher than philosophy majors. Pigs take two years; degrees take four to six.
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