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AI can write code, and it writes it well. So what remains worth teaching? UC Berkeley computer scientist John DeNero joins Sarah and Taiyo to make the case for computational thinking — abstraction, decomposition, and the intuition that tells you when an output is wrong — as general education rather than vocational training. Along the way: why programmers get more out of AI coding tools than non-programmers, what an “AI agent” actually is, and why a CS degree is becoming less like a trade and more like a discipline.
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