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Getting your first CS internship as a community college student

If you are a CS Washington community college student, this post is for you. We will look at recent graduates (2023-2026) from other 4-year community college programs who found internships and jobs and answer (1) Success stories: how have recent more...

What AI Can't Take Away From Me

Now and then you see news about AI displacing human jobs, and you might wonder “Huh. When AI can do everything I can do, what even is the point of learning or doing anything?” Is this sense of despair warranted? more...

AI and jobs: not so SiMpLe eCoNoMIcS

TL;DR. When someone tells you “AI will create more jobs because increased productivity will lead to increased demand for labor! It’s SiMpLe eCoNoMIcS!”, ask them “more employment for whom? AI or humans?” AI optimist’s view. Some AI optimists seem confident more...

Reasons to work

A friend and I were talking about non-monetary motivations for “working”. Here is a scattered list of the ideas that were mentioned, and my personal reflections on how emotionally resonant these ideas are to me. A caveat: I use the more...

AI-proofing a CS Course

Unregulated AI usage risks setting up students for failure . But is there anything practical that busy instructors can do beyond writing AI policy documents? In this post, I’ll sketch out my personal course structure, then lay out the source more...

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