I’ve been in computer science for over 40 years, and it has always been a field defined by rapid change. People in computing have always had to adapt to new technologies—or risk becoming irrelevant.
There’s no question that AI represents a major leap forward, one that is changing how we work, build, and create. What I tell students is that adaptation will continue, but AI will now be an increasingly significant part of what we use—both as a tool to build with, and as a foundation to build on.
Computing has always been about solving problems and creating new inventions by layering and leveraging existing technologies in innovative ways. That process of human-driven innovation will continue. It will evolve, just as it always has, but it will not disappear.
So, I tell everyone: there are still countless new things waiting to be discovered and created—and that’s what we will be doing. Computers won’t do it all on their own.