Tech with Mak (@techNmak)

"Do not learn to code" is the worst career advice of the decade. People are telling college students to skip Computer Science because AI will just automate it all. Andrew Ng just killed this myth at Stanford with a brilliant analogy. When he tried to generate images with Midjourney, he typed: "make pretty pictures of robots" and got garbage. His collaborator, however, understood Art History. He knew the exact vocabulary of lighting, genre, and palette. He spoke the "language of art," and generated masterpieces. Andrew Ng is seeing the exact same thing happen in software engineering right now. AI didn't replace the need to understand Computer Science. It made Computer Science the required vocabulary to control the AI. If you don't understand how computers actually work, you are just typing "make a pretty app" into Cursor and shipping fragile, unscalable logic. Here is Andrew Ng's exact hiring hierarchy today: Level 1: 10 years of experience, but codes by hand (He won't hire them). Level 2: Fresh college grad, but highly fluent in AI-assisted coding (He hires them over the 10-year veteran). Level 3 (God Tier): Deeply understands CS fundamentals AND uses AI-assisted coding. When humanity went from punch cards to keyboards, coding got easier, and more people coded. We are at that exact inflection point again. AI doesn't replace fundamentals. It multiplies them.