I was chatting with a group of Princeton CS students and they told me the CS enrollment has been way down. I looked into it, and it's definitely a trend:
- Nationally, 62% of CS programs reported declines in 2025
- Down 9% over past 2 years across UC schools
- Most striking, existing CS majors are feeling the most regret about their choice of major with the rise of AI (more than Humanities majors 😬)
Whether we'll need more or fewer engineers in the future, the supply of new ones is shrinking. Maybe a temporary blip, maybe a sign of things to come.
The silver lining though is that if there's a surge of demand for engineers, existing engineers will become super valuable.