Did I Waste Four Years on My CS Degree?

Last week I watched Claude Code build a full-stack app in 10 minutes. Would've taken me two days. Four years of college, and Claude learned it all instantly. "Entry-level position, 3-5 years experience required." Used to be a joke. Now it's reality. Companies that hired 10 junior devs now hire 2. One senior with AI does the work of five people. All those mundane tasks AI handles? That's literally what entry-level engineers do. That's how we learn. The bottom rungs just got automated away. And it's everywhere. My friend in marketing watched her company replace three writers with Claude and ChatGPT. She kept her job managing the AI. But she's training her replacement. Legal researchers, financial analysts, designers—all competing with AI now. We thought cognitive work was safe. Turns out we were wrong. Here's what gets me: productivity is soaring, companies are more profitable than ever, but none of that translates to people doing better. Wages stagnate, jobs disappear. We were promised automation would give us leisure time. Instead, some work harder while others lose their jobs. The gains flow to shareholders. Everyone else gets told to "reskill." But reskill to what? If AI advances this fast, what's actually safe?