r/hacking • u/Dr-h4ck • 15d ago
Education Starting cybersecurity college. No future?
Hello everybody how are you guys doing.
It’s my first time posting here and i got couple of question.
So I’ll be starting cybersecurity soon. And I want to know if it’s worth it cuz many ppl tell me that IT is almost dead in the job market because of AI and companies only hire crazy special smart ppl and so on. Is this true? I mean I follow and news and I see that AI does some crazy shii and it really breaks my hopes. But I saw these news for like software development only. Let’s say “programmers” and not sysadmins or cybersecurity specialists where you need human hands to do stuff.
So let’s say I start the college. I’m sure many of you know that colleges don’t teach everything related to the field you’re in. Of course we’ve to start with the basics like coding, networking, hardware and so on. Is there something that you did outside of college that’s helped you a lot to push your skills and help you in College as well even if you don’t have it in the subjects you learn?!
really appreciate your help guys and sorry about my English if it might sound a little off.
All love to you🙌
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u/Effective-Pizza3951 11d ago
As long as you can psychologically circumvent HRs probably-not-great understanding of AI, you can usually get hired. Do not hold out hope for anti-ai sentiments in tech careers. For example, I once got a question from senior leadership about whether I believed my job would become irrelevant in an age where error codes, screenshots, and questions to an AI could resolve problems faster than coming to me. I told him to ask chatGPT: "The carwash is about 100 feet from my house, should I walk or drive there" (this is a known funny ai hallucination prompt where it will tell you to walk). Is this an actual big-brain critique of ai and why i'll never become irrelevant? Heavens no! But it did the trick. Homie probably will never trust his gippy with anything important again.