"In a dimly lit Stanford University basement classroom packed with anxious computer science students, lecturer Mihail Eric tells the class he's going to teach them how to code without writing a single line of code. Eric's class, The Modern Software Developer, has quickly become one of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester, which bills itself as the first attempt at a major university to embrace coding tools like Cursor and Claude."
"It is an unsettling time to be a computer science major, even at a school as prestigious as Stanford, knowing you will be graduating into a world where AI is getting better at programming by the day. "It can be scary because you think your job security is being compromised, and you might get replaced," said Brent Ju, one of the class's dozens of students. Ju is graduating this spring and so far has no job offers."
There is widespread fear that AI could make expensive computer science degrees less valuable as automated programming advances. Most university classes continue to ban AI tools, while one popular Stanford course explicitly teaches students to use AI coding assistants. The course, titled The Modern Software Developer and taught by Mihail Eric, demonstrates how to build software without writing traditional lines of code. Guest lecturers from AI coding companies and venture firms present practical guidance. Many students express anxiety about job prospects and ongoing interviews. The course was designed as an antidote to AI bans and to prepare students for AI-integrated development workflows.
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